CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 27, 29 May 1912, Page 5

CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS.

CPor Press Association.) Wanganui, May 28. About one o'clock on Tuesday a telephone message from Kakatihi, about thirty miles distant, stated that Tom O'Neill, a well-known young sell lor, had boon grievously injured in the stomach - . The injured man was being carried to the main road, and a doctor and a priest were summoned From Wanganui. A motor-car, containing a doctor, Father Viband, O'Neill's brother, and the chauffeur, lef! about 2 a.m. All wont: well till Aberfeldio was reached, where the ear went over a bank twenty feet below the road. II struck a manuka tree, the occupants being thrown out. O'Neill sustained concussion of the brain, and the others wore badly shaken. But for the collision with the tree the ear would have gone over a precipice fifty feet deep. The doctor and the priest proceeded to Kakatihi, where an operation was performed, and the riles of the church administered to the injured man. who d.ied about 10 o'clock-. Reticence is being observed, but from what can be gathered, it appears that about 11.30 on .Monday evening the deceased was in his room, ostensibly for the purpose of retiring to bed. when ho callod out to bis brother and others in I h;> house. Rushing in. they found him with a terrible gash in his stomach. He would not indicate how the gash was marl", but realising that he was dvim'- expressed a wish to make a will.