ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13683, 27 August 1908, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, August 26. Patrick .Smith, employed ;.b a gang-r on the railway, met with a s*riou» accident near Penrose to-day. He was walking early this morning on the track bt'.«..eri Kllei'.ilie and Penrose, and hearing ■> w\v*i\t; fn.ni the 7.40 a.m. train from the former station jumped on to the other track right in front of the approaching engine. He was huiied on to the tide, and the train being speedily pulled up fir*t aid was rendered, by a doctor from H.M..S. Encounter, irbo was.on board the train. The man was then conveyed to the hospital, and is progressing as well as can be expected, although his injuries are serious. He has a broken leg, several broken ribs, and his face is badly cut.

Mr W. Shirley Hill, Auckland indent and Customs houss agent, was attending a meeting at the office of Messrs Dufur and Bfcs tliis afternoon when he became suddenly unwell. Medical aid was sought but Mr Hill expired in a few minutes. James Baiue r, who has been boarding af rlie Sailors' Home, fell over the breastwork at Quay street into the harbour this evening and was drowned. The body was recovered by tlie police.

WELLINGTON, August 26. Tbe police authorities received informal ion this morning that a man apparently in a fit was lying on the beach at Magazine Point, Oriental Bar. On Constable Hood going out he found the body of a man face downwards on the sand with blood oozing from tb-a mouth, a bullet wound in the left breasfc and a revolver at the feet. One chamber of the revolver had been discharged. Dr Henry was wnt for and 'on arrival pronounced life to be extinct. The body, which was i hat of a man about 40 yeans of age and respectably clothed, was conveyed to the morgue. From papers found -en tbe body ;t appears lhat tbe man's name is Andrew IYtterson, and that- he is a recent arrival from .America, .•s letters addressed to that name Chicago. U.S.A., were found in the pocfa-is. The deceased ha;-: a brother, a boarding-horise keeper, in Hawera.

CHRISTCRURCH, August 25. An old age pensioner mimed Gorgcnsen, committed suicide yesterday evening at Lebons Bay by langing hansell in an outhonse near his residence. A middle-aged man named Thomas Speed Sibbald, well known in Duneclin and Chrifr-tchurch, died suddenly in a restaurant ic-night.