ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2586, 21 August 1909, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A LABORER’S SUICIDE

(Per Press Association.) WANGANUI, August 20. A laborer named Oscar Olsen committed suicide this evening by jumping off the town bridge. He had been drinking about the town. TRAMWAY FATALITY. WELLINGTON, August 20. The inquest was concluded to-day on the body of William Dempsey, who died from injuries received through being struck by an electric tramcar on Monday evening. Some sacks of cliaff bad fallen from a lorry, and deceased was helping to reload them when the accident happened. It was shown that f"' the motorman in charge of the car had done everything possible to prevent the accident. A. verdict of death from misadventure was returned, the Coroner stating that- the motorman was quite blameless. - A WORKMAN DROWNED. Thomas Robert McCallum, aged 33 years, employed in connection with dredging operations in the Piako swamp, fell off the steamshii) Albany this morning, and was drowned. He was a Scotsman, and had sent money Home to bring his wife and two children to this city. The body is still unrecovered. * FOUND~DROWNED. CHRISTCHURCH, August 20. An inquest was held to-day on the body of Louis Albert Elerig, which was found in the Avon yesterday. A verdict of death by drowning was given, there being no evidence to show how lie got into the water. The late Mr. L. A. Elerig was well known throughout the Dominion in years gone by as traveller for the firm of Skelton, Frostick and Co., with which he had been conectcd for a very long time. The deceased gentleman was also identified very intimately with both craft and capular masonry, being an old member of the Canterbury Lodge, and also of several Royal Arch Chapters, etc. A SINGULAR ACCIDENT. ASHBURTON, August 20. During the progress of a clearing sale at Hinds yesterday a farmer named* Louis Hansen slipped off a straw stack in the pig yard, and just as he reached the ground a pig cannoned against his right leg, fracturing it above the knee. He was brought to the Ashburton hospital. BY DROWNING.

DUNEDIN, August 20. A case of suicide at the Benevolent Institution occurred this afternoon, a ■ man named Timothy Hogan drowning himself in a bath. It is the custom of the to have a bath on Fridays. The deceased informed a nurse at 2.30 p.in. that lie would have a bath at 3 p.m., but half an .hour later he was found in the bath quite dead, the door having to be forced open. The deceased had removed all his clothing except lvis flannel, and had bound his legs with a strap. The deceased had been suffering from cancer, and he was admitted to the home on June 22nd. A WOMAN DROWNED. Emma Smith, wife of Thomas Richard Smith, a* railway porter residing at North-East Valley, loot her life by drowning at St. Clair to-day. A woman named Mrs. Finlayson said that deceased was sitting oil a seat, then sno heard a scream and saw the deceased' floating in the water. By the time assistance was procured the body nad disappeared, but it was, subsequently recovered. The deceased had been suf- • , forint from insomnia for some tuno. When she left home this morning she ■ had a pix-weeks-old child with her, bun, i the infant has not been found so lar./ /; m ■ ■ - £ .f'• fit’*-? h'TM/wij