CASUALTIES.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18584, 3 June 1930, Page 4

CASUALTIES.

ACCIDENTALLY SHOT. By Telegraph—Press Association. HAMILTON, June 2. Joseph Dufty, a well-known professional wrestler, was fatally shot at 7.30 this evening, while conducting a shooting gallery at the Waikato Winter Show. It is not yet ascertained whether the shooting was accidental or otherwise. “NOT GUILTY.” By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, June 2. William Patrick Lennox was found dead in the scullery of a home at Takapuna yesterday. A detective and Constable who went to interview him, found the blinds down and the doors locked. They broke in and found him dead, his head in a gas oven. On a table nearby was a pencil and envelope with the words: “Not guilty,” Written on it. The inquest opened and was adjourned. CHILD’S DEATH. fiy Telegraph—Press Association. OAMARU, June 2. A five months’ old child, Desmond Keith Black, was found dead in his cot yesterday morning by his parents, who live in Arun Street. The child was seen by the mother at 2.30 a.m., when he was all right. A doctor was dalled in at 7.30 and pronounced life extinct, death being due nrobably to suffocation. DEATH OF MAORI. By Telegraph—Press Association. TAUMARUNUI, June 2. At an inquest held to-day on Henry Marshall Kelly, a Maori, who was found dead at Tawhata on Saturday with a bullet wound in the forehead, a pea rifle having been found lying across the body, the Coroner returned a verdict of suicide. Deceased left a letter intimating that he was tired of life, and intended taking his troubles to an unknown world. MOTOR-CYCLIST KILLED. By Telegraph—Press Association. PALMERSTON NORTH, June 2. A shocking tragedy occurred at the Kelvin Grove crossing this morning, when a motor-cyclist, whose name is not yet known, ran into the northbound daylight Limited express, and was killed instantly. The body was frightfully mutilated. Apparently deceased sighted the train when 50 feet from the line. The brakes failed to arrest his momentum, and the cycle struck the engine, the rider being whirled round the wheels.