ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13928, 6 April 1909, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

A YOUNG MAN KILLED. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Anril 5 Inspector Gillies has received advsco of a sad fatality which occurred at Little River yesterday. A" young man named Herbert Jacobsen, twenty-cvo years of age, and his' father were driving when the horse bolted. Jacobsou, senior, escaped by jumping cut of tjo trap, out young Jacobeen was thrown out of the .vehicle and. Kilted- , A MAN t>SOPS DEAD. GORE, April 5. Denis Tuffley, aped 65, an ex-railway servant, dropped dead while killing a pig at Clinton to-day; the cameprrsumably being heart disease. Dcjf »^ who was married, was to have kit on a trip\to the Old Country ou Monday. LYING ON. THE RAILWAY. AUCKLAND, Ap-il *. A strange accident occurred at bru- - derson late on Saturday iua{M. ".7 er-gineman on a ballast trnm apprP'u?nin^ Henderson station, saw>a man lying,across the rails. The brakes were applied, but before tho tram was «ojP?d the engine struck the man, and thicw him off the line. Just. clear of tho 'me, another man was lying. The injured n£n, William Armstrong, was taken to the hospital, whfefe his injuries, not ox a serious nature, received attention. .The man who was lym ? ciwr of the line wasa gumdigger, Thomas Baylies. At the Police Court to-day, he wes .-rmvicted of drunkenness.

A BODY FOUND. . DTJNEDIK April 5. The body of a man almost unrecognisable was found on Deadman Beach, on the Molyneaux River, about six miles below Beaumont. It is presumed to do that of Wilson, who has been missing from Kawarau station fcr about 3ix months. .. .

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