ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 65, 22 July 1913, Page 2

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

NE W ARRIVAL'S, .suicide. [Puft ; Passs Association.] ' Palmerston ,N„. July 21. Richard 'Hovvlin Gidley, 40 years of age, recently from Devonshire, England, committed suicide at Palmerston North in tlioj Family Hotel. He shot him soli in the mouth; with a revolver. Papers on the deceased indicated that lie recently arrived from Home. He iiad realised on some property there, but had no rqpnsy yrhen found dead. He had' a wife and.-two children in England. No' cause is assigned for the deed. To-day, at the inquest, a verdict was passed of suicide.

A HORSE-TRAINER’S SUICIDE.

Hastings, July 21

At the inquiry into the death of Douglas Watt-, horse-trainer, a verdict was returned that he died of a gunshot wound, self-inflicted, on Saturday Evidence disclosed that a recent ' court castej fin, which deceased was fined for assaulting’>a Chinaman, prpyod on his mind, i. ; '

h — , i ■ > ; FALL FROM A TRAIN, <0 i Aucklhndp July'2P. i

A fireman. named William Campion, 23 years -tq agey tots aeon Tying - pnpcnsomqs prij thfe side jof' cho railway i (ijne by tliGj passengers on the incoming Rotorua; oppress, near Romuerar-stay Hon. pips evening!'ol The matter ’ wafe yepor.tcd, to ihe police at Newmarket, who went out and' brbdght him ’id tb the hospital. He is suffering from a fractured skull, and his condition is critical. He left Auckland-on the 4.25 p.m. train to Hamilton,RanS iVrs surmised fell off the engine. The locomotive driver reported at the next st i qi,iQn / the disappearance of his ■fireman. t I'! viul. .in -and

i d m Auckland ;Ju1yc(22. 1,1 ;r Miam Campion, died'in tllk'h'btpital this morning ag/the'resulta fractured* gkiilL.■ ii ,i l l 3.‘ noiribu

ACCIDENTAL DEATH.

Taihape, July 22,

An inquest was .held to-day on William Armstrong (38),/: married, who died in the hospital , last night from the effect of wounds in ,the abdomen caused by a wire strainer slipping while ho was engaged in fencing work at Hihitahi on Thursday. A verdict of “accidental death” was returned.