ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2503, 17 May 1909, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

FOUND DEAD.

HALF-CASTE NATIVE'S SAt) KM)

News of a sad fatality was brought to the police Station yesterday morning at 7 o’clock by two men, Messrs A. G. Robinson and W. Simpson, that- they had discovered the dead body of a half-cast-o Native on the roadside at Te • Hapara as they were on their way to Makauri to attend the East Coast Mounted Rifles’ cainp. They described how they found the body lying across a small culvert on the roadside, with his head and chest in tho water of the ditch. A cape which the deceased, was wearing was thrown over his head, and a little further on along tho road they picked up a stirrup leather and iron, which had evidently slipped from a saddle. They lifted the body out of the water, and cmmunicated with the police, and subsequently. Sergeant Hutton and Constable Dwyer conveyed it to the morgue, where it was afterwards identified by Rawliia H-ohepa to be that of Joseph Swann, a resident of To Arab

From inquiries made yesterday it was , lioTseback, and i n company with several Natives, some on horseback and some in a buggy, left town for Te Arai at about 5.80 p.m. on Saturday.. Just ' j’jteido town deceased got off his horse, and, remo'joring in a moment or two, galloped past the of the party, wiIO did not see him again, hut, reaching tho Park racecourse, found his horse, riderless, and with a stirrup leatiier and iron missing. They turned back, but could not find any trace of the missing man, and yesterday morning reported tho matter to the police station, only to be told that his body was in the morgue. Deceased was a married man, well known in tho district. He leaves a widow at Te Arai, hut no^children. An inquest will be held this afternoon.

A FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

[Feb Press Association.]

TIMARU, May 15. Dennis Collins, a laborer, aged 29, was run over by the slow train from the South as it "was coming into the station last night and was killed instantaneously. His head was cut off. and his body terribly mutilated. No blame is attachable to the driver of the train!* The deceased had no business on the line, where ho was when run over. KILLED BY ACETYLENE EXPLOSION. OAMARU, May 15. A boy named Thomas Cuff, 3ged 11 years, was accidentally killed by an explosion of acetylene gas to-day. He! was playing with another boy in the tent occupied by the Jones Buckjumping Company, and struck a match to examine a tin containing dry carbide of calcium. An explosion followed, and the ton of the tin was driven into his head, kilting him instantly. SEVERE INJURY BY A FALL. DUNEDIN, May 15. Archibald Andrew, a retired baker, aged 54, who lived with his wife at Wingitui, suffered a very serious accident last Saturday. He was doing- some carpentering in his house, and, in some way or others, appears to have fallen nine feet. His wife ran to him and found him lying unconscious. The injured man was removed to a private hospital in town, where lie lies in a very precarious condition, liis spine being badly injured.