ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
(Per United Press Association.) MASTERTON, Juno 23.
Michael Molloy, aged 75 years, a native of Ireland, and a resident of Masterton for 40 years, died suddenly while gathering wood in the Waipoua River to-day. A verdict that death was due to heart failure following exertion was returned at the inquest. WELLINGTON, June 22. An inquest was held on the body of Roderick M'Loan, who was found, dead on the steamer Mararoa. Tho coroner found that death was due to poison, self-admini? tered. The deceased was a single man/' a labourer, with no fixed address.
INVERCARGILL, June 22. A miraculous escape from death occurred when a motor car crashed into the Invor-cargill-Tuatapere train at Wallacetown this afternoon. The driver of the car, on seeing the train, swerved in the same direction as the train was going, and this probably saved his life. Tho tram tossed the car off the lino, smashing it hopelessly, but the driver was only slightly bruised. The locomotive, which was badly smashed, proceeded on its journey.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18896, 23 June 1923, Page 8
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