ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13464, 10 December 1907, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

A SENSATIONAL SUICIDE. Press Association-Bv Telegraph-Copyrigh.! NEW YORK, Dec. 8. : Mrs William Laimbeeiy , alias Clara

Bloodgood, a'-popular actress', and one of the New York "Four Hundlrsd," ccann:-'it-ted suicide owing to financial 'worries arising out of the Knickerbocker Trust failure. The suicide caused a 1 .sensation. Per Press Association. /. ■ ■ AUCKLAND, December 9. As an electric tram was ascending Wellesley street, on ■ Saturday: evening, flames suddenly' burst out inside the car. ' The

motorman had one arm badly scorched aud v was thrown off the platform. Some' half dozen paseengeru jumped out of the tram, which was running back' on the down grade at a good speed, when an ex-motorman jumped on board, pulled, the trolley pole off the wire, and stopped the car. . The shock to t the passengers was considerable. v : A's the iseats; suddenly becaniei alive'the • car was dit 'up .'with. flashing blue lights- emitted from all the ironwork; * -The.' controller'blew'ybut^-' and-' the fuel box caught fire. . •' NEW, PLYMOUTH, December 9. William Joseph Gambler, a middle-aged man, and sexton at 'Te'' Henui Cemetery, committed suicide by cutting his throatlast -night. He had been confined to bed with kidney complaint, and the- nurse left him about 12.30 a.m. A few minutes: later she heard aqnoise, '■ 'and;' proceeding to his room found- him with a '.terrible. wound made with a razor, which apparently had been concealed under the mattress.

;, . PAHIATUA, December: 91; : The' daughter, two years : old, of Mr Alfred Mace, was drowned through falling dqwn afelll-Zv' ■■:■'.' ASHBURTON, December 9._ A young man named Andrew Harris,' Iwho was engaged in the. Mount .Gomel's coal pits got his. right foot badly crushed while at work on Thursday. He was removed to Ashburton Hospital, where it

wa;-j found necessary ti> amputate the. injured limb at the ankle joint on Last evening the body of a man..nameel George Cochrane was found hi his' hut at Elgin, Wakanui, about four miles from} Ashburton. The case is evidently one of suicide, as a gun containing a discharged cartridge was found Iving with the muzzle' ointing'towards the body,.;and. a box containing cartridges was alsofound in the hut. Cochrane was a itingler

man .about thirty yeais of age, and had lived all hiVj life in Wakanui district.. :All 3ri« relatives iir.»idei>in the \ vv,tfnity.v At the .inquest the jnry., -returned '., a, verdict 'thiH decearedc-'-met. his dleath from .a gunshot- wound,v:and thai there yar-irin evidence to show how' isuch w?g ; inflipted. Thev were satisfied that there, "were no suspicious circumstances." ;■ NELSON^-December 9. ■■;. Gtorse Marshall was: found dead near ;his residence, Xgatimote, .yesterday morning. .■■::■■"-'■'.'

: ; - DUNEDT.NV December 9a : : '-.'Charles Henry Fordham, aged; 15, died suddenly at North-East Valley yesterday. 'He had been an invalid for three yearsHe caught cold a week ago. . I An inquest was held to-day on the body of Helen McTaggart,' 67 years of age, wlhfo died on Friday/ Dr Closs gave, it as his opinion that death was .cba to syncope, accelerated by.' want _of food and. the diseased condition of the ', internal organs. Her heart indicated fatty degenerait'iou,:: prbb&bly "due: to alcoholic poisoning. A : .verdict in accordance with the medical testimony was received'.