ACCIDENTS AID FATALITIES

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 2, 27 June 1924, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AID FATALITIES

hospital path;vr suicides. Per Press Assentation. .-uKjdaiul. January 27. ■ Lawrence Wyatt, aged 19, formerly employed on a farm at Omaha, now in 'hospital here for heart trouble caused by acute rbuematism, was found at 3 o’clock this morning dead, having cut his throat with a razor. He had not given, any evidence of suicidal tendency, and despite his infirmity was generally of a cheerful disposition. CRUSHED BV COW-C VITSS ER. Tiinani, June 20. A young man named Norman A. (iould, aged 22, died to-day after Being; crushed by the cow-catcher of an engine in the cleaning sheds on Friday night. He was. found by a fellow workman with the cow-catcher pressing against his head. C°nld had bee© in the cleaning pit, against the I'P of which Ids head was crushed. It is not known how he was caught ly the’ engine. He was unconscious when Found, and no cry was heard from him. He died without regaining consciousness. ENGINEER CAUGHT IN BELTING. Tiinaru, June 26. Ernest Lomond...aged Jo, married, an engineer at th© local brick works, was pulling off a belt on an engine m order to stop if at noon to-day when he became caught in the belt and was twisted, round the shaft. His! body was fearfully mutilated, having to be cut. from the shafting. ROTOR PAR FATAL I TV. Hamilton, June 27. At the inquest concerning the death of the youth Maurice Enoch Ansell, who was.killed on May 6. through being knocked from his bicycle by a taxi driven by Joseph Balle. a verdict of accidental death was returned. The Coroner added that the fatality was due either to the excessive speed of Dalle’s car or to Balle not having kept a proper look-out. Alternatively, if he had seen the hoy he had failed to use ordinary care by reducing speed and veering to the left.