ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 212, 12 October 1914, Page 10

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

A TERRIBLE LEAP. Preat Assodntion. NAPIER, October 32. A distressing suicide .occurred yesterday. Miss Catherine Ida Locking, aged n, leapt off the Bluff Hill on to the roadway,. 250 . feet below. Deceased was a daughter of and had been mentally, ailing for a few days. When picked up, the body presented a shocking spectacle. From the injuries sustained, it is believed that the unfortunate woman dived head foremost. Identification was possible only by means of her clothing. Deceased left a note to the'-effect that she had done her best to protect the forces from Ger : mans, and bidding her people good-bye. BAD SLEEPING PLACE. WELLINGTON, October 12. .lames Gillon Was lying in an alleyway leading to a motor garage off Courteuay Place oa Friday, when the wheel of a motor car passed 0A r er his head.' He was taken to the hospital, where he died yesterday. RUN OVER. PALMERSTON N., October 12. | Henry Chalk met with a tragic fate j this morning. He was- run over by the ■ Foxton train at a crossing.' When the train was about a hundred yards away, j deceased was close to the line, looking ; towards the train, which whistled, but | when it approached he started to walk across the line. The brakes were applied, but too late. When picked up Chalk was still living, but he died on reaching the station, lie was recently from' Pahiatua, and had been missing from his j place of abode since Saturday. i DIED AT SEA. j AUCKLAND, October 12. j Mrs Nellie Osborne, a resident of l Helensville, died on the Riverina dur- < ing the voyage from Sydney to Auck- j laud. She had been on a visit to, Queensland for the benefit of her health, ! having gone into a decline owing to consumption. i