ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144051, 22 March 1913, Page 7

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

YOUNG MAN’S SUICIDE. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, March 21. A shooting fatality occurred at Rangiora last night, under somewhat unusual circumstances. John Samuel Ingram, 25 years of -age, unmarried, returned to his father’s house slightly under the influence of liquor. His father remonstrated with him, and y®mg Ingram went upstairs, got a revolver, and came down again. It is not yet quite dear whether he deliberately shot himself, or whether the revolver went off by accident, but the bullet entered his head, and he died at 12.30 a.m. today. INJURED BY RAILWAY ENGINE. CHRISTCHURCH, March 21. Miss Mary Ellen Hodgeman, 20 years of age, residing at Islington, met with a serious accident whilst sending on the railway platform at Islington. By some means she got too near tho engine of an incoming train, which struck her. Medical aid was called for, and it was found that Miss Jledgoman was suffering from internal injuries and from concussion of the brain. MOTOR CYCLE IN COLLISION. WELLINGTON, March 21. About 8 o’clock last night a motor cycle ridden by Andrew Clouston, wharf labourer, collided with a hansom cab in Jervois Quay. Clouston had his wife and child in"a side car attached to tho cycle. Clouston and Dolman, the driver of the cab, say that they were on the right side of tho road. When near the cab the cycle swerved and got under the front of the cab, and was only extricated with great difficulty. Clouston had his noso broken and his face cut. Mrs. Clouston was severely shaken, but the child was uninjured. SHOOTING ACCIDENT. CHRISTCHURCH, March 21. Brief particulars of the shooting fatality which occurred at Hororata yesterday were received to-day. Tho body of" James Phillips, aged 65, a farmer residing in the Colgate district, was found with tho top of his head blown off by a gunshot. Phillips was out rabbit-shooting, and it is assumed that the fatality was the result of an accident. LEVEL CROSSING FATALITY. DUNEDIN, March 21. At the inquest on Robert Adair, who was killed at Mosgiel yesterday, the evidence showed that deceased was driving a horse and trap from Dunedin to Mosgiel, and when crossing tho Gordon Road at 5.50 p.m, the train ran into the trap, cutting it to pieces and throwing the occupants out, deceased receiving such injuries that he died soon afterwards. Three girls, - named Trevethan, aged nine, seven, and four years respectively, also received serious injuries, and were conveyed to the Dunedin Hospital. The evidence went to show that the train, which was travelling at the rate of from twenty to twentv-five miles per hour, whistled before ranching the spot, as usual. The trap was travelling at a fast pace, and the driver, who was looking in the opposite direction, on seeing the train, pulled up, but being then on the line, it was too late to get clear. One of tho girls is still unconscious, Adair was about 35 years of age, and was married about a year ago. He leaves a widow and one child. A verdict was returned dint. '<eath was duo to injuries received by being run over by a railway train, no blame being attachable to the driver of the train. . A POUNDKEEPER’S DEATH. AUCKLAND, March 22. George Hill, poundkeeper, of Upper Queen Street, was admitted to the hospital on March 6, suffering from injuries said to be the result of an assault by a man named James Evans. He died on Thursday night. Evans is in cus- , tody.