ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13696, 11 September 1908, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Per Press 'Awociatloa. .' . . " * L % ** * * - W AIS^ANUI,' * Sept. 10. A gruesome ha<jl *«» avai(fe» by tin dredge while workitefftiit> river between thei town and -thefileads litis- nKirnittg, when a human leg, ;yart' ot a" trunk,' awt *ome clothingv. w«wr brought Up by' *h<& buckets. The KimaihS: fere suppose la b<> 'those of & youhgMnan named >lason, who committed.'suicido by drowning' about twelve moafhs' who left ou tha river bank it; handkerchief tied 1 to, a willow: txee, «nd-a; BibJ<s itontainings ijia name and] a watch. Ha,'Jiftd '.ao knowm raise lives in tlni Dominica., r • . ,

CIiBISTCHUHCH, Sept. 10. Richard Taylor ; {46 ,J'eara, of ag«f), ».'• cab driver, raidiag. m . Milton. Svdjenium, -vrsi-i .found. dtesil au;, Lw Im>umj about. 10 o'clock..tlibJ nwraiug., Hft w«ls unnsarried ant! He had been tunrell for two or a^onb noon yesterday explained,, t<> atieighbdur that he was suffering fronl terribly palne. When • th» neighbour *;&»(» to Taylor's this, tnorping found him, sitting in Lis ehair-d.ead.- He.ljad -apparr it-nth* died tritliout k utniggla,.- na f othfcr* wise he would have fallen - iiff tlie chair. A» iiifftwwt was held Uu& njoroing a verdict of death ironi heart "diswasa was ret tinted. . "

ASimutfTtfx; S*pt. 10. A man named C'WW : Kinross, whilp skylarking wish soino companions at Methv*«, fell through a w i wfe>w Vl s6m ipg tit# tnnsctes ami blood • vessels '.of,- lusi wrist He « trtkeu to th? hnajwtUl, whew chloroform was*' adnfintfiwtd pfid stitches put in. Ho w m>*v jNrogre&ung Mttfofao* torily. t '

SUDD EX DEATH IN* TIMARU.

Yesterday, at a few minutes; .to one, a man nau>ed Wilhain; aged nbont 70- years," died Kelly's jiiiop, St wet. .Mr Kelly lirs«t* *-avr the wiau taite d #ndden larch and grasp hold of the woodwork of one of the shop windows, tJtsrtbfc Ml * baclcf wards on to the , pavement.. " L«eki» ww agisted to his feet; and "*Hh- aid enabled to walk info ilid nhop, Ji« : ; «*plwil just ,a» . Dr. Boiwyr who wswt summoned, arrived. Th» pplut> were communicated with and the body was conveyed to tits morgue at tho hospital.. The old man wan a, labourer by occupation nrjd wan wellknown in Tinwrn, whm he htwl, mtdfd ior some years, latterly with his wy»« inUw, Mr Hudmp, in iCmk Ila {fluently worked at the flow ni>lU,.a» a bag-mender and at; Mr F.lwortby'* at I'.uvom On Friday morning ho left, Mr Bishop's honsa and did nof tettirn, l.ut a* it was thought thai; lift in the country workipg, end ns }»« teul no! been ailing, no etouxrn wak f#lt for hi* mUnj. It wa& dE*eover«d yesterday, afur Sun death, that. he had been living at an hotel in town. An inqvtwt *rili probably be held tbi# maiiiing. Yiwierday zfurmmn tha infant *on of Mr Ross, oat! of tW hands rmplnyed. on Mr t"r.jigi-.-V "furm at Kitig*duvii, veiy iV-rmwh* miwt by drtnrniojjr There is a small fwk near the hon*", ;ti»d th<» child who is jUM Alteon montlw old w.im playing about, Mrf fU*i# ,kt*pin# a watchful fye on Jblm, klhj missed him »nd an ira» Hif'diat«* s>«m;h found bun Jyinc in thft wati*r n,utp!e<«tly HtssJching hitu up !it»r >rr»;miK broueht tie- Ww4!h»!d to b«r sid 8«d Mr tJlawi, Mr Hot* m»d Mrs Ibm Kiart,«i4 U» mtore t,!»e c»r« cul.i£i.i)i. It truik aIKiU! !Wo ha!ir»* Work; di*' 6o*' *» out of dingifir, fo that iw- tnUivL have Iwfii under water fop tsfjif- . »,,