ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2469, 6 April 1909, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE

[Per Press Association.]

THAMES, April o

William Piesley, a middle-aged prospector, attempted to commit suicide by drinking a cup of water in which match heads had been dissolved. When found he was in a dangerous condition. Medical measures were promptly applied, and the man removed to the Thames Hospital. He is likely to recover. . He, had been on a drinking 'bout. „. - •. . ' - A SUDDEN DEATH. - PALMERSTON N., April 5. Robert Milson, aged 74, dropped dead on his farm on Saturday. Deceased, with an employe, was chopping wood. A shower caused them to run for shelter to some, scrub. The employe, missing Milson, went*back to look for him, and found him dead. He had resided in the district for 37 years. FOUND - DROWNED. CHRISTCHURCH, April 5. The body of William Perham, aged 6S years, was found floating in the’estuary. He had been reported missing since February 12th. He was of unsound mind, and apparently fell into the river. A SINGULAR ACCIDENT. • . [Per Pres? Association.] AUCKLAND, April 5. A strange accident occurred at Henderson late on Saturday night. The engineman on a ballast train approaching Henderson station saw a mail lying across the rails. The brakes were applied, hut before the train was stopped the engine struck the man and threw him off the rails. Just clear of the line another man was lying. The injured man, William Armstrong, was taken to the hospital, where his which .were not of a serious nature, received attention. The man who was l v ina clear of the line is a gumdigger, Thomas Bayliss. At the Police Court to-day he was convicted of drunkenness. A YOUNG MAN KILLED. CHRISTCHURCH, April 5. Inspector Gillies has received advice of a sad fatality at Little River yesterdoy. A voung man named Herbert Jacobsen, aged twenty-two years, and his father were driving, when the horse bolted. Jacobsen, senf., escaped by jumping out of the trap, but young Jacobsen, was thrown out of the vehicle and killed.