ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 16212, 29 September 1924, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A MOTOR ACCIDENT. MAN FALLS OVER A CLIFF. \ (By Telegraph —Press Association.) SYDNEY, Sept. 29. Arthur Sehute, managing-director of the firm of Sehute, Bell & Company, a well-known and popular wool broker, was knocked down and killed by a mo-tor-car last evening. He was aged 68.

Foster Henry Hartley Sargent, director of the’ firm of Sangent’s, Ltd., while viewing the scenery near Blackheath, fell over a cliff 300 feet high and was killed.

LEVEL CROSSING AGAIN. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WANGANUI, Sept. 27. A serious accident occurred at a level crossing at Liverpool Street otf Saturday evening. A car containing the Misses Gene Botvick, of Hunterville, and Corelli Bahcn, dispenser at the local hospital, was crossing the line when they were struck by the train. The car was smashed to pieces. Miss Bowick was seriously injured about the head, but Miss Bahen escaped comparatively lightly.

MAN HANGS HIMSELF. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) PALMERSTON N. Sept. 29. " Shortly after seven o’clock on Saturday evening Henry Perse Forsyth, aged 45, a married man with a, family of six children, was found hanging from a willow tree in a garden at his residence in Main Street East. The deceased was a commercial traveller by occupation but had been out of employment recently. Ho find been treated for a nervous complaint.

INbURED BY FALL OF EARTH,

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Sept. 29.

John Turner, aged 29, was admitted to tha hospital with injuries from a fail of earth at the gasworks. He was digging in a pit nine feet down when the sides collapsed burying limn He was dug out by the other workers. His injuries comprise a slight injury to the knee and bruises and shock. He is progressing favourably.

PARACHUTIST KILLED, (A. and N.Z. Cable.) PARIS, Sept. 28. 1 Madame D’Arcy, a parachutist, when trying a new parachute, threw herself from an aeroplane in the air. The parachute failed to open, and the woman crashed to the earth and was killed instantly.

NUN BURNT TO DEATH. (A. and N.Z. Cable.) PARIS, Sept. 28. A num residing in a convent at Grandvilliers, was melting wax with a spirit-lamp when her clothing caught fire. The woman, like a living torch, rush out shrieking, and all efforts to extinguish the flames failed. The nun died in terrible agony.