ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11298, 12 June 1908, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(Per Press Association.) ' AUCKLAND, last night. Robert Alexander Guiin,.. a. miner, over 70 years of age, was killed in his mine at Tokatea, near Coromandel, early this niorning. Gunn had evidently put in a charge of dynamite, Avhich had either exploded Avlien he Avas tapping it, or the .charge had missed lire, and "on -going to see the cause the charge had gone off and killed him. His head was almost bloAvn off. v .."'>";. '"'■".-■; DUNEDIN, hist hight." Tlioma.s Brown, Ay ho was found hanged in the bush. wa&' a retired gentleman, about 60 years of age. He,, disappeared from his homo in Helena, street, South Dunedin, yesterday afternoon., He had been suffering from melancholia for some time, and as. soon as his disappearance was noted grave fears Avere entertained. DUNEDIN, this day. '"At 'the inquest ' on ' Thomas. Brown," found hanging from a tree at Caversham,--a verdict of suicide -while temporarily insane was returned. INVERCARGILL, this day. Leo Patrick Kenny, a shunter, recently transferred from Auckland, fell* between a moving truck; sustaining shocking injuries';...- .Both'; his legs and an aim had to be amputated. His skull was fractured. He died this morning without regaining consciousness. He leaA'es a widoAV, but no family. ..,.,.'..