ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.
Per Press Association. PALMERSTON NORTH, March 16. A man named A. J. Stockman, aged 23, was crashed between two trucks on the railway yards this morning. He to-l-nined fatal injuries, and died within a quarter of an hour. He was a casual -employee at the station, and had only been there three months. When the accident happened he was engaged in shifting cases of fruit from the station to the goods shed while shunting was in progress. His parents live at New Plymouth. DUNEDIN, March 16. Joseph Ernest Sargent, accountant at Thomson, Bridger and Co.'s hardware establishment, shot himself at his place of bnsiness, whither he went at 9 o'clock last night, saying he bad to resume work. His wife expected l him to return at midnight, bat as he failed to do so *be left for the office and discovered a light there. On the manager being appealed to he opened' the jnt'mises -,-ind found Sargent lying dead with bti"3el. holes through both temples and a tf'Vdlver him. No one else wu* in ihe place. The firm'* books are all right. ••in,-3 there is no cnnse to -explain "he ;.;i. He leaves a wife and two chi3djcri.
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Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12926, 17 March 1906, Page 5
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200ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES. Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12926, 17 March 1906, Page 5
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