ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13595, 15 May 1908, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Per Press Association. NAPIER, May 14. At an inquest- at Meanee touching t.he. death of John Tracey, an old resident; who died while staying for the night at a neighbour's house, the jury returned a verdict that the deceased met his death from enlargement or fatty degeneration of the heart. BLENHEIM, May 14. A young'married man named Owen MeHale, a crack half-back, and a Marlborough Corporation employee, was accidentally killed at Riverlandn. He was out "•hooting last evening, and loaded his gun for SAvan, but failed to get a shot, and Avas strapping the AA-ea\)on to his bicycle, AvJien the charge exploded, lodging in his groin. He never recovered consciousness, and died this morning at 10.30. ASHBURTON. May 14. A young married Avo.inan named Mrs. Heriol. Avife of a Papanui resident, aa.lio AvaM employed in his fathei's store, committed suicide last- night by hanging herself to a tree in the farm orchard of a relative named J. Evans. Avhoin she avjis visiting at Spreadeagle, sixteen miles from Ashburlon. Mrs. Heriot retired-.to bed v(> usual last'night, but later her absence Avas discovered thiough the cries of her two voung children. Several hours' -earch failrd to jwal her Arhereabouts>, i.tit at daybreak the body w.-.s (omul suspended from a tree quite dead. No reason ■i a.v-igned for th? deed. DUNEDIN, May 14.

John Alexander McMillan, aged abonfv 40 years, died suddenly this evening. He wav with three companions engaged in stocktaking in A. and T. Burts -ore—"-.s and about 6.45 while the men were ' tea he rose, walked two steps and foil backwards. When a, doctor arrived life was extinct. Deceased leaves a wife and family. A Voung man named James Schrick lost his life last night while attempting to cross the Molyneux in the "chair" He missed hi« seat in the chair as it moved from the staging and hung on to the side of the box until it was immediately over the centre of the river wheiv it remained. About the time his call for help was heard he let go his hold and fell into the river. He floated some distance and iinally disappeared in a whirlpool about 200 yards from the scene of the accident. He was a native of Patearoa..