ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143781, 3 May 1912, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A MINER’S SUICIDE. Per Press Association. THAMES, May 2. Clement Miller, aged 62, a hospital inmate who was suffering from miners’ complaint, cut his throat and died soon after assistance had been secured by the nurse. A SCHOOLMASTER SHOT. THAMES, May 3. Alfred Hilyard Gatland, master of Coromandel High School, was found dead at 8 o’clock this morning, as the result of a gunshot 'wound. Later. Mr. A. H. Gatland, head master of Coromandel High School, committed suicide at his residence. Ho was found dead with tho muzzle of a rifle in his mouth and a hole right through his head. He was to have represented Coromandel Lodge at the conference of Masons at Dunedin. AN OLD MAN’S DEATH. PALMERSTON N., May 3. Last evening a man named Richard Robertson was discovered lying in a helpless condition in Church Street. The police were informed, and found the man in a very bad way, but able to speak. He informed the constable that he came from Makuri and was seventy years old. A doctor ordered his removal to the hospital, where he died an hour after admission. Apparently the deceased had a sudden seizure, as apparently he was in good health in tho morning. An inquest will bo held. A CHILD KILLED. WESTPORT, May 3. Ina Gibson, aged two years and five months, while getting out of her cot,, was impaled,on the upright of tho cot from which the knob was missing. The baby died from injuries in the groin. A MINER KILLED. WESTPORT, May 3. David Parry, aged 211, a married man, a recent arrival from Wales, was killed at the Stockton Colliery by a fall of coal and stone from the roof.