ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 72, 18 November 1912, Page 3

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

A RAILWAY ACCIDENT. (Per Press Association.) Christchurch, November 17. At the inquest on Chas.- Boyle, Cf years old, who was found dead on thf railway lino on .November 11, a verdict r.as retained t.xat deata was due to shock from injuries to the skull, probably caued by contact v.itii the railway engine whilst deceased was walking on the line towards Waipara.

SUICIDE BY HANGING. Dunedin, November 17. Agnes and wife of Arthur Ibbotsoli, II 0,00 street, North-east Valley] was fon'i l, hanging by a rope from a hook in the scullery, at 11 o’clock this morning, Her husband left at 9.55 to. attend a prayer meeting, returning home at lire hour stated. Deceased had a child about three weeks ago, and' lost, it! and had been depressed, ever since. SULPHURIC ACID POISONING. Wellington, November 17. An inquest was held on Saturday into the death of Valentine Alfred Pyne, who was found at Lyell Bay on Thursday, suffering from the effects of poison and wounds in the neck, apparently self-inflicted, and who died on Friday. Peceased had tnljd, two dqc- { tors who Were sent for that he had taken nitric acid, and that' he bad inflicted the wounds him’selfj but apparently sulphuric acid had been used. Deceased’s brother-in-law; stated that Pyno was much interested in wireless telegraphy, and his actions lately had been strange. A verdict was returned that death was duo to shock following on peritonitis, due to swallowing a fluid, probably sulphuric acid.

An Austrian named Vrfaljko received fearful injuries from an explosion of gelignite at Kawa on Thursday (says the Te Awamutu Post). He was engaged as contractor on drainage works on the property of Mr J. B. Teasdale. It appears that at about 4 p.m. a charge failed to go off, and on the unfortunate man “picking it up the charge exploded in his hands, blowing them completely away, besides very severely injuring his arms and chest. He was sent to the Hamilton hospital by the 5 p.m. train, after being first attended, to by -Dr. Henderson, who fortunately happened to be oil' the train. 1 ' r

At Kihikihi on Wednesday' a veryold settler named George Henry Mac-. Kinder committed suicide by throwing himself down a well. The deed was done at 3 o'clock in the morning, and owing to the fact ’ that tli(f- ..well was sQft. deep, with l 10ft. of water; in it, an hour and ai half elapsed Before the body was recoveraj'Jwhich Was 3 effected by means of , a wjndlass. , j/Deceased was in comfortable circumstances, and no reason can be assigned for the rash act. There is the fact, however, That . i -nsq. t’tfayauu ,mt mw.-imsoowi for sometime he had been aiJnig ami

had been medically attended. At the inquest, a verdict of temporary insanity was returned- The. date Mr Mac Kinder was boith in Lincolnshire, England, in the year 1830; d'He came to New Zealand by‘the s.s. Amstrong,* reaching Auckland ;m 1861,, anil after two years’ residence there removed to the Waikato (states-the Waipa Post) where he spent most of his life; in the Kihikihi district. He was wellknown and highly respected throughout the Waikato, and always took a keen interest in public affairs, being a member of the Wajpa County Copncil for the last 14 years, and having also served a number of terms on the Rangiaohia Road Board, besides being chairman of the Kihikihi Cemetery Trustees. -He leaves a wife and grown-up family.