ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 60, 4 November 1912, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

SCHOOLBOY’S SUICIDE. (Per Press Association.) Christchurch, November 3. The supposed suicide of a schoolboy at Leithfield is reported. The facte are stated to be that the body of Cyril Moore, fourteen years old, who resided with his grandparents, was found in a waterholo at Leithfield at 9 p.m. yesterday by a farmer named McLean. On October 31st Moore attended an examination at Amberley, and on his return homo his grandmother (Mrs Franks) asked him to go and get her some water. He appeared at the time to be very much worried over his cxexamination, and informed Mrs Franks that he thought he had failed. He did not return with the water but his grandparents were not anxious about his disappearance, as he was in the habit of going away to relatives who reside at Omihi. When the body was found it was clothed in boots, trousers and shirt. The police authorities state that it appears to be a case of suicide.

UNFORTUNATE CIRCUMSTANCES. , Wellington, November 3. Jane Hay Allen, a widow, residing in Tinakori Hoad, was found dead this morning about 11 o’clock. She was last seen alive by Charles Borck, a labourer with whom she had been living for about five years, and who reported the death. Deceased was the widow of the late Win. Allen, a guard for many years on the Wairarapa mail train. When the. police entered the room tire body was lying in a dirty bed, with dirty blankets, and the room was in a filthy condition. The face was much swollen, and the body discoloured from head to foot. At the morgue the police were about to take a ring from one of the fingers when the flesh came away, leading to the supposition that deceased’s system was in a very bad state, or else that death had taken place earlier than stated by Borck. He stated that the woman Vas addicted to drink. A post mortem is probable, as the doctors refused to give a certificate of death.

FATE QF ;A BUSHFELLER. Dannevirke, November 3. A : young Victorian named Neil McKay, 24 years of age, met with an accident whilst hush-felling at Ruaroa on Friday, and died"in Dannevirke Hospital yesterday. When a sapling he was working on fell, it dislodged an old limb of a tree which had been hung up in the branches. This struck the ground and bounded towards McKay, who put out his axe-head to protect himself. The tree drove the axe-handle into McKay’s stomach, inflicting Jn,juries to his abdomen, from which he died, no operation being performed owing to his condition. The jury, at the inquest, found a verdict of accidental death, with no. blame attachable to anybody. Deceased’s parents live in. Victoria.