ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 11997, 4 September 1909, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

FOUND SHOT DEAD. IVt l'ress Association. NEW PLYMOUTH, Sept. 3. Tliis evening a well-known resident, John O. George, about 65 years, was found by his daughter in the house shot through the head. Deceased had been in poor health and low-spirited since the death of his wife and sun some two years ago. KILLED BY TRAIN. WELLINGTON, Sept. 3. Harold Standle, the victim of the railway accident last night, died this morning. He never regained consciousness. At the inquest the evidence showed that William Gadsby, of Hawcra, travelled with deceased from Marton. Gadsby and another person left deceased on the Thorndon platform, and crossed the railway line to feed some horses, one of them carrying a truss of hay. A train came along and knocked the hay out of the man's bands. It is supposed that Standle had followed the other men, and was struck by the same train. man, driver of the train, said the fireman told him to stop as something was lying beside the line. Edfin, the fireman, said his - attention was called to the rattle of ballast at the rear end of the engine. The light of the first carriage showed the form of a man lying beside the line. The Coroner found that death was due to deceased coming in contact with a train going in an opposite direction, neither fireman nor driver being to blame. A SUDDEN DEATH. GORE, Sept. 3. A fatal accident occurred at Eden-d.-fle this afternoon. A threshing mill hand named Angus Cameron, a middle-aged man, was riding on the fore-carriage of the mill wheu it broke, and the front part of the mill pinned him to the ground, breaking his neck. Deceased was a .married man with a grdwh-up' family.