ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 167, 9 August 1909, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

A MISSING MAN. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Keefton, Saturday. Alt hope is abandoned in regard to the missile., man Baxter, as his drowned horse and u« trap were found in- the Little Grey river. Maxtor was a native of Sunderiand, England, and is supposed to have friends at Nelson. STRANGLED TO DEATH. | Wangnmii, Saturday. At an inquest on the body of Frederick Moorhouse, who strangled himself in Wauganui Gaol on Thursday night, held to-day before Mr. Lillitoii, actingcoroner, and a jury of six, a verdict was returned that deceased took his life in a state of menial derangement, CUU6' ed by over-indulgence in alcohol. RAILWAY FATALITY.

Auckland, Last Night." Yesterday afternoon a man named Frederick Cotterill was killed at Ellerslie railway station. He was in char?e of a cart, and just as the train' was coming in he jumped oil' the platform and attempted to cross the lines to get to his hors. 1 . He was caught by Hie train and practically cut to pieces, ll■: was employed by Mr. Gill, of Panmure FOUND DEAD. Christchurch, Last Night. John Edward Robinson, aged twenty-i nine years, was found in a kneeling position' on the floor, dead, in "nis room in ii boarding-bouse about midnight cm Saturday. An inquest was opened this morning, but the post mortem was not finished, and the inquiry was adjourned till Saturday. Deceased was a bras?

moulder employed here. There are no suspicious circumstances.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. HAULED OUT OF THE HUATOKI. The man Marshall, who recently made a sensation in Manaia by stabbing himself, evidently with the desire for s'elfdestruction, made a further attempt yesterday afternoon to end his existence. He jumped into the Huatoki stream in the town near the Taranaki Hotel, and was being curried -away by the current, in al>out three feet of water, when one of the employees at the hotel went in after him and hauled him to the bank. Dr. Home and Dr. Walker were summoned, and after treating the man had him conveyed to the hospital.