ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2672, 30 November 1909, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

PRISONER’S SUDDEN DEATH. {Per Press Association.! AUCKLAND, Nov. 29. A man named William Henry Miller was arrested at 1.30 p.m. on Saturday, on a charge of theft. He was taken to the Newmarket police station anjd put in a cell. At 3.10 p.m. he was found lying on the floor with his head on the corner of a wooden bench. Two doctors were sent for and pronounced life extinct. A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY. A man named Henry Woodcock, employed on works at Teliana railway station, who had been brooding over domestic troubles, committed suicide by drinking spirits of salts. NARROW ESCAPE FROM DROWNING. CHRISTCHURCH. Nov. 29. A narrow escape from drowning occurred in Lyttelton harbor yesterday. Two men, who were out fishing in a boat, were capsized into the water, and were soon in a very precarious condition. Fortunately for them they were observed from Fort Jefvois, where the Lyttelton Navals were in camp, and Chief Petty-Officer Toomey put cutin a cutter. He picked up the more exhausted of the two men,-who would almost certainly have been drowned .if the cutter , had not gone out, and his unfortunate" fellow Was taken on board the boat from, which the two had fallen. THE INVERCARGILL SAWMILL FATALITY. INVERCARGILL, Nov. 29. At. the inquest to-day on the body of Robert Gunn- McDonald, who died in the hospital as the result of injuries received at a sawmill, the jury returned a verdict that Robert-'Gunn McDonald died as the result of being struck on the forehead by the handle, of a winch which he was working, through a log he Was shifting accidentally slipping. The following rider was added —"The jury consider that, for the safety of employees, all sawmill winches should be provided with safety checks.”