ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143771, 20 April 1912, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

SUICIDE AT WANGANUI. Per Press Association. WANGANUI, April 27. A man named R. H. Ashford, aged, 27, a recent arrival from the Old Country strangled himself in a bedroom tins afternoon. He first tied a handkerchief round bis neck, then passing a rope front a box over the mantelpiece, tied the end to the handkerchief, and threw himself forward. Deceased recently received news of the death of his wife, and had been melancholy. THE LONGBURN FATALITY. PALMERSTON N., April 19. The inquest concerning the death of Percy Field, the victim of the Longburn motor accident, was concluded this afternoon. The jury returned a verdict that deceased met his death as a result of a collision with a motor-car-driven by J. W. Milner, and that every reasonable precaution had been taken by the driver, no blame being attachable to anyone. RAILWAY FIREMAN INJURED. TAIHAPE, April 20. A railway fireman named A. V. Round was brought into the hospital suffering from a serious fracture of the skull. Ho was fixing a shovel at Che back of the tender in the vicinity of'the overhead bridge at Mat'aroa. About 5 a.m. the driver missed him and found him lying at the, back end of the tender. He is assumed to have been struck by the bridge. His condition is critical. He is believed to belong to Leeston or Christchurch. A TRAIN DERAILED. ASHBURTON. April 20. An accident occurred on the Mount Somers branch line train this morning, about twenty miles from Ashburton, an engine and ten waggons becoming derailed and tearing up the permanent way for a distance of ten.chains. The carriages did not leave the rails, the only damage to the rolling stock being a broken axle on one of the trucks, Drags have been dispatched from Ashburton to bring the passengers to, town.