ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6122, 8 March 1898, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

— "♦=— — United Press Associattoa— Jly Electric Telegraph— Copyright. deceived March 8, 9.50 p.m. A FATAL MISTAKE. ■■ MELBOURNE, March 8. Dr Williams,, of Fitzray, injected what was supposed to be cocaine into a patient, Mrs Turner. Afterwards, following the usual habit, he injected his own arm, The doctor collapsed, while gjf Tigg hp.m.6, and died in afW hours?. M® *S ?E ft critical condition. It has been diSg6V6i?6tl f'bat a chemist's assistant supplied Di 1 WillifiniS with atropine, a deadly poisoQ, instead of cocaine. [Atropine is a vegetable salt of a highly poisonous nature, obtained from the Atropa belladonna, or " deadly nightshade."] ~

[Per Pjrkss Association.! WELLINGTON, March 8. A sad shooting' accident happened at Akatarawa.[near Upper Huttf this morning. Two brothers, Frederick and William Lee, were mustering cattle, when a bull turned on them. Frederick, aged eighteen, discharged a gun and then climbed a tree. He called to his brother to re-load the gun, and while the Jatter was handing the weapon to his brother, a branch caught the trigger and the gun went off, the charge landing in Frederick's right side. Death was almost instantaneous.

On Friday evening, Mr K. M'lntosh was driving home to Flaxfcon from the Eangiora horse fair, when his trap collided with a vehicle coming in the opposite direction. He was thrown ont on to the roadway, and sustained a very severe scalp wound, his head being cut from the forehead to the back.