ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Southland Times, Issue 21728, 14 June 1932, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

WIDOWER’S DEATH. (Per United Press Association.) Dunedin, June 13. The police are advised that William Boyer, a widower, aged 65, was knocked down by a taxi in Alexandra on Saturday, dying yesterday in the Clyde Hospital. DISAPPEARANCE FROM VESSEL. Auckland, June 13. A resident of Waiheke Island, George Boxall, aged 61 years, disappeared from the passenger ship Omana while travelling to Auckland last evening. Mr Boxall, who was a retired business man, went on deck about six o’clock, and when the ship was approaching her berth an hour later he could not be found. DISTRESSING FATALITY. Taumarunui, June 13. A distressing fatality occurred on Saturday afternoon on a farm at Patunga, down the Wanganui river, when Ivan Roscoe Smith, aged 21 years, with his father, A. Roscoe Smith, a well-known farmer, was felling a. tree. It had just been sawn when it kicked back, striking Ivan Smith in the chest. He ran a few paces and collapsed into his father’s arms, dying almost immediately. TWO MEN FOUND DEAD. Dunedin, June 13. Samuel Crow, aged 65, a retired accountant, was found dead in the laundry room of the Leviathan Hotel, where he had resided for 10 years. The upper part of the body was covered with a blanket and a gas tube was turned on. Ernest Logan Mains, aged 36, married, an unemployed carpenter, was found dead at his residence in Mornington. There was a bullet wound in the head and a rifle beside the body.