ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 289, 9 May 1914, Page 15

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

MOTORING FATALITY. By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, Friday. Alexander Smith, who was injured in a motor-cycle collision on the main road near Allanton, on April 26, died in the hospital this morning. McDonald, the other injured man, has recovered. Smith leaves a wife and one child.

THROWN FROM HIS HORSE. Invercargill, Friday. Edward J. Cuekon, a railway guard, white taking part in a hunt at Otautau, was thrown from his horse and sustained concussion of the brain. He died this morning. He was a married man, and leaves a wife and three children.

FOUND DEAD IX BED. Invercargill, Last Night. Inspector Norwood received advice today that a young man named Niel McAuley, aged 24, had been found dead in bed at the Eallarat Hotel, Arrowtown. The deceased is believed to have relatives in South Dunedin. .

CARELESS SHOOTING. WhangareV. Last Night. Morgan, licensee of the Hukerenui Hotel, was shot in the leg on Tuesday, and brought to the hospital at Whangarei. He heard a shot, and felt a sting in his thigh. It is not known who fired the shot, which went in his thigh and trotiscr lej; to below the knee; eleven inches in all, after first penetrating corrugated iron. It then buried itself in the ground. Morgan previously lout his arm by a gunshot wound.

AN INQUEST. Nelson, Last Night. At the inquest on the body found near Murehison yesterday, the jury returned a verdict that the remains were those of William Gill Rces, and that the evidence indicated death due to poison self-administered.

A STREET COLLISION. Wellington, Last Night. A telegraph messenger, Charles Payton. while riiling his bicycle in Cuba street, collided with a milk-cart, and was removed to the hospital with a fractured skull. A BOAT CAPSIZES. Oisborne, Last Night. The police are advised that a man named Robert Pole, supposed to have recently come from Lower Hutt, was drowned at the mouth of the Awatere river, near Te Araroa, to-day. Pole was attempting to cross the river in a boat, find was carried by the stream into the breakers, at the river mouth, where the boat upset.