ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 409, 19 January 1909, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

THE BRIGHTON FATALITY. (BY TELECIIiI'H- srECUL COKEESPONDEXT.) □unedin, January 18. As to the drowning of Vim. Jeifs at Brighten yesterday, it transpires that, the four lads 1 wero swimming in comparatively shallow ; water,; when' all of them seem to have got within the drift of the ocean-going rurrent: Glasso t€lls tho' story thus': "Suddenly I felt; myself being sucked out,'and dug my feet into tho sand, calling to the others to look out, hut Perry and Jeffs were carried • right- out,.; Perry caught hold -of Jeffs, and tried; to bring him clear, swim-, ming straight in against the current. Apparently, Jeffs, caught hold, of .him, and Perry getting away' tried: again. to bring, him in. Jeffs seemed: to- have hold of Perry's foot, when a wave broke over them and a man on tho hill above saw Jeffs throw up his arms and disappear. Perry swam cut to the centre, mid with our'assistance got out. We ourselves. had the greatest difficulty 'in reaching safety in the first place, and wore quito "done.Perry Was exhausted." • DANE SHOOTS HIMSELF. . (Br TELEGKAPH-VPRESS, ASSOCIATION.) Oannsvirko, January 18f .A manj named Laurent Frus, a native of Denmark, aged 60, committed suicide at Piripiri yesterday; by shooting himself in the head with a pea rifle. Deceased arrived with. the early .'Scandinavian settlers about 34 years ago. He, had been complaining .of illness of late. ; , '