ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144083, 30 April 1913, Page 3

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

SUICIDE IN A HOTEL. Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, April - 29. A man named R. Irving Johnston, apparently between 3S and 40 years or age, is supposed to have committed suicide in the Gladstone Hotel this afternoon. His body was found on. his bed with a deep wound in the throat and a razor lying alongside. Deceased arrived at the hotel on Tuesday, and sai(j that he might stay for a few weeks. He is said to have been somewhat eccentric in his actions and sayings., He did not have his meals in the hotel and: drank very little. Articles in his possession indicate that at one time .he followed the occupation of a, commercial traveller.

CRUSHED FINGERS. WHANGAREI, April 29. A. H. Clarke, while working a planing machine at .Foster’s timber yard, this morning, got his left haad canght in the cog-wheels of the machine. One finger had to be amputated, and ho may lose the others, as they were -ter-' -ribiy crushed., . A FISHERMAN'S END. INVERCARGILL, April'29. John' Stirling, Stewart Island, today conveyed io Half-Moon Bay in a boat tlie body of John “Marshall, which he had found in the latter’s .dinghy about eight miles from Half-Moon Bay. The dinghy was full of water and the oars and rowlocks were gone. It is supposed that during a squall on Monday night the deceased was fishing and the dinghy capsized, Marshall afterwards righting her, hut the exertion was too much for him and. death ensued. The deceased, who was 61 yearn of age, had lived alone in a hut at Horse Shoe Bay. KILLED IN A GRAVEL PET. INVERCARGILL; April 29. A fatal accident occurred ati'Sedgehope on Monday afternoon. A young man, aged 23 years, was working in a gravel pit for Mr. M’Eachem, when a fall of earth came down suddenly. The deceased was jambed by the fall against a dray and death was instantaneous, his skull being fractured and Ms. peck broken. He .was only known in-lie locality as “Sandy,” and was said' to have nailed from the Gore district.