ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20787, 5 August 1929, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

MAN TAKES POISON. (Feb United Press Association.) AUCKLALND, August 3. Edwin Ryan, aged 32, a married man (a labourer),; living, at Cardwell, street. New Lynn, was taken to the Auckland Hospital late yesterday afternoon suffering from the effects of \poisou. Hie condition was critical on admission, but today he had shown an improvement. Ryan returned from work about S o’clock, and after an altercation with his wife was later found lying outside his home with a bottle of poison beside him. At one time he was a. well-known Rugby foot;; bailer, being one of the 'famous Ryan family, of Petone, and was a member of the. New Zealand Army' team which toured South Africa in 1919, of which his brother (James) wae vice-captain. KNOCKED DOWN BY LORRY. CHILD FATALLY INJURED. (Per United Press Association.) \ ‘HAWERA, Augusts. As the result of injuries received when knocked down by a motor lorry at Okaiawa on Wednesday afternoon, Madeline Mack, the six-year-old daughter of Mr and Mrs A. J ; Mack, of the Okaiawa Hotel, died in the Hawera Hospital this morning. The child had. been playing with a group of children on, the side of the roadway in the middle of the township, and ran out suddenly towards the middle 1 of the road, colliding with the .lorry, which is - reported to nave been moving slowly. •

SHOT THROUGH THE HEART. (Pkb United Peess Association.) CHRISTCHURCH. August 4. A verdict' that Harold Hough, aged 20, of 394 Colombo! street, committed suicide by shooting himself through the heart with a shotgun, was returned by the coroner (Mf E. C. Levvcy, S.M.) at the inquest to-day. Hough was found dead at his home on Saturday afternoon with a shotgun lying across his legs. He had apparently touched off the trigger with a piece of wood, which was in his hand. There was no evidence at the inquest Us to why Hough should have taken his own life. FOOTBALLER INJURED. Whilst playing Association football for Mornington against Technical Old Boys on Saturday afternoon, Archie Munro collided violently with another player, and received a fractured jaw. The injured man, who is 29 years of age and married., was admitted to the Hospital at 3.4 S o’clock.