ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Waikato Independent, Volume XXIII, Issue 3041, 5 April 1923, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

DRANK ARSENATE OP LEAD ■' ] ’ DEATH OF OItCHARDIST (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, April 3. Hubert Price, an orehardist, aged 53 ; died to-day as the result of accidentally drinking poison. He had been experimenting with- arsenate of lead as a fly-killer, and on Friday mixed some in a cup. During the night he got up to get a. drink of milk, and in the dark drank the mixture in the cup. He became unwell, but as he had forgotten -mixing the poison he could not help the doctor to diagnose his ease. The explanation of the illness came on Sunday, but he gradually sank and died this after noon.

MAN BURNED TO DEATH TRAGEDY AT FEILDING. FEILDING, Tuesday. A single man, Albert Wickham, aged 20, was burned to death in a shed at the rear of business premises in Ferguson Street last night. Ho was subject to fainting fits, and it is surmised that he fell, thereby upsetting a candle.

RUSH FOR RACE TRAIN. YOUNG WOMAN KILLED. WELLINGTON, Tuesday. When a race train for Wellington was pulling into Fcathorston station mst night, a large crowd, which was waiting to board it, made a rush for seats, and a young woman named Annie Lions, aged 27, fell beneath one of the cars, being badly injured. She was immediately extricated, and removed to Grey tow n Hospital, where she died. One leg is stated to be broken, and the other severely crushed.