ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 700, 28 December 1909, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

. "UNSUCCESSFUL IN, MWTNG." ', (By.j Telegrapjiif-Eress .'Association',);. ; > . . Auckland, .Deceniber ■'27. ; William-I'V Butters, a dentist in Queen 1 Street, ; \vas;found dead in.his rooms this- ■ .morning,.; with ; ii glass cohtaiiiin? cyanide .. .of, potassiupi;alongside him. He •••Was';last ;; seen alive OA;Christmas Eve. lt. is uri.'derstood lie had been;;;.unsuccessful,in- ' lnining speciilatians. ~ ■; ;;; | A WOMAN'S END. ' • 1 (JHristchurch, December 27., - At'; the inquest, 011/ M'Loughliii,. s otherwise' I'ortelli,, the Uvidence of : tho 5 . police Avasf to, the'effect ,that; deceased was •' a ttell-knowft misdemeanant/j-ivith 48 con- < victipns against 'I her. The medical evi--3 donca was that a > tion had showed that death had 1 been- , caused by heart; failure, ; duo to, dther (liseases.V : ['■ THROWN BY A RACEHORSE. 3 ;. Napier, Dcccmber 27. ; Harry Limmer. oi Hastings, vas riding: . the racehorse Amato towards I'etane today, when the . animal shied at a bus, Limmcr Was ibrown.'.and thd bus. passed'. - over Tiiia, ; breaking both ' his legs and' ■ crushing his,left.hand. ; ; .: DROWNED WHILE BATHING. ' • Duriedin, Decambcr 27. 9 A youth named John Edwin'Harle," 16 1 years of age, wns accidentally drowned at -. Pduriawoa (Catlins), on Sunday, while s bathing. ! '; f • FOUND DEAD. -; : ' ', Qisborne, December 27.'' ; The body ; of a man named Hill was -. found on the roadside at Motu on Christmas Day. 1 Ho had'apparently been dead .for several days. '.' ,