ACCIDENTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14222, 13 June 1910, Page 5

ACCIDENTS.

SUICIDE OF A FUGITIVE. Press Asfiiociation-By Telegraph-Copyright Received 5 p.m., Juno 12th. NEW YORK, June 11. A' fugitive, a Brussels bank embezzler of 300,000 francs, committed suicide with, a revolver, when on the point of arrest "on the staircase of a Now York hotel. KILLED BY LIGHTNING. Received 12.20 a.m., June 13th. PARIS, June 12. Lightning killed five persons in the Pas de Calais. MINING DISASTER, BERLIN, June 11. A violent shock of earthquake was felt at Gelsenkirchen, Germany, apparently following an explosion in a shaft of No. 3 Consolidation Mine. Four hundred-persons were working in the pit, and their fate is unknown. The mine-owners announce that there, was no explosion, that a gallery collapsed, injuring several persons, and that two others are missing. DETERMINED SUICIDE. Per Press Association. THAMES, June 11. Patrick Hogan, aged 29, a single man, employed in the Tairua district, committed suicide at the Imperial Hotel Pollen street, by cutting "his throat with a razor. He returned from Auckland last night and appeared to be all right. He had his'meals as usual He was found this afternoon with his troat cut and died shortly after. He had no relatives here. FOUND SHOT "DEAD. AUCKLAND, June 11. Arthur Frederick Buckland, a widower, aged 40, committed suicide in an Auckland boarding-house this morning. He was found dead in bed with a revolver bullet in his temple. He was a solicitor's clerk and had recently been in the hospital for bronclual trouble. FOUND DROWNED. GREYMOUTTT, June 11. _ lhe body of Minnie Glen, aged 18, sister of the young man drowned off the dredge at Notown on Monday, was iound washed up on the Cobden" beach this morning. She left her home on May 24th, was presumably going to Wellington in the Arahiira and had not been seen since. IN STREET AND HARBOUR. CHRISTCHURCH, June 11. Friday night's squall caused many minor accidents and much temporary inconvenience. The squall came up from the south-west with marked suddenness. People cycling home from business were caught unawares and some cyclists were blown over and others tumbled through sideslips on tho greasy streets. At Lytteltoii there was a good deal of excitement, particularly in regard to a party which was sailing across'the harbour in an oiien boat. A temporary hand on the dredge was injured severely, having his leg lacerated by getting it caught between the dredge and a launch acting as a tender. SEVERELY HURT. . At Sumner quite a heavv sea was rolling in from tho bar arid shingle was thrown aver the tramline, disorganising the car service for some time. Mrs Devon, who resides at Soekburn and who was a passenger by the 4.15 p.m. train from town on "Saturday, stepned off the train whilst it was passing the Hornby station where she: desired to alight. 'The train was not scheduled to stop there, a. Tact of which Mrs Devon was apparently unaware. It was noing about 10 "miles an hour when Mrs Devon stepped off it. When assistance reached her sho was found to have been much cut about tho head and was suffering from shock. She was taken to the hospital and this afternoon was reported to bo progressing favourably towards recovery. BURNT TO DEATH. OAMARU, June 11. The police received intimation that a man named J. S. Adams, about 24 . years of age, was burnt to death last ; night in his whare at Maerewhen.ua. i The second mate of the s.s. which arrived here yesterday, was kill- i ed when the ship was at Banbury, by | falling between the vessel and the i wharf and being crushed to death.