Accidents and Fatalities
AUCTIONEERS IN ACCIDENT. Per Press Association. Ashburton, august 11. Near the Spread Eagle, Messrs W. Tones and J. Cunneen, of the auctioneering staff of the National Mortgage Agency Company, and Jack McCosker, of Wakanui, were returning from a clearing sale at Mt. Vomers when the car unaccountably overturned. Cunneen being pinned beneath, but the othera were cast clear. McCosker, who was uninjured, releasoed Cunneen, but Jones was slightly hurt and was removed to the hospital. WORRIED ABOUT BUSINESS. Wellington, August 12. At the coroner's inquest on Ralph Hogg, who was found hanging in a gravel pit near Wellington, it was .stated that deceased, who was a resident of Eastbourne, had been unsuccessful in business and wan worrying about his finanical position. He was very depressed, A verdict, of suicide by hanging was returned.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 83, 13 August 1923, Page 8
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