ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1039, 31 January 1911, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

' : DROWNED' ili-A picnic. r j-. ' PERILOUS ATTEMPT AT RESCUE. '. . (By Telegraph—Press : Association.!, i V , . . Hamilton, January .30. • ' A sad bathing fatality occurred in the Forest Lake' this . morning, on tho . occa- | sion' of tho Baptist Sunday School picnic, William Kean, aged twenty-six years,'be- ! irig • drowned.. Deceased, with a man i nhmed Rilshbrook, went for a swim. The latter noticed that Kean was in -diffi- | culties, 'and*\vent to his assistance: Kean ! / said'he, was all. right,'but-shortly afterwards . called for help. Rushbrook again , went - to.'."his " assistance; . but deceased . caught his would-be rescuer by tho throat, [' and the ...latter, was obliged ■to let go, when ..The body was recovered ' . twenty minutes' later. Rushbrook reached j ibore with.' difficulty. ; i. PAINFUL EVENT AT PAHIATUA. ; .. .. Pahiatua, January 30. j ' A,, sensation was ; caused in •. town this morning, 'when it was' ascertained that .Francis E.'Storey, a tailor,, in business here, had committed suicide. The body . was found at ten o'clock in tho Slangatainoka" River,' with" a' bullet wound under. the- right, ear. He had only trousers : iiid. boots on: His legs were tied just above ■' the boots. His other clothes were on- the bank," A', five-ch'ambered revolver was! found in tho river close to the body. One chamber'was empty, arid' the others L full. Deceased was last seen, in the early morning-in-town. ' , . .; \ - ' '■' " SUDDEN DEATH. . ' Nelson, January 30. Mr. ■■ George Chapman, Superintendent ef: the-Mental Hospital, died suddenlv in his bath, this morning from. heart-failure: He hail attended church yesterday,' and' was. about' his' business on Saturday. His age'was fifty:. A widow and three children swVive him: ' ; LITTLE BOY'S DEATH. • .; Invercargill, January 30. Clarence Wilson,- the seven-year son of George Wilson,••storeman, accidentally fell into the Mataii'ra River, adjacent to Wyndham between five and six o'clock on Snnday evening. The body was recovered «t. 11 p.m. ■ ' DROWNED IN A RIVER. ■ 1 Westport, January 30. 1 An. inquest touching the death of Wil- ' liam Henry Whittaker," whose body was found in a backwash of the Buller River, five miles' above Westport yester-day,'-was held at the courthouse to-day. Evidence was given by James Billet, to ■ the' effect that he and Whittaker wero crossing the Inangahura River, a tribu- . Tory of the Buller. on Christmas Day, when the 'boat capsized, and Whittaker was drowned. Billet being carried over a . mile down the river on'the beat to which he clung,- and landed on an island fr6m which he .got ashore next day. Mrs. i Whittaker, gave cvidenco. that dcecascd was a Tasmanian, 43 years of.' ago: and th'ry had a fnmily of one child. A verdict of accidental death was returned. Messrs. Abraham and 'Williams 'will liold a stock sale at John6onville on Wednesday, February 1. A. stock sale will bo held at Pahautanui ' on Monday, February 6, by tho N.Z. Loan •rid Mercantile Agency Co. The first term of the Wellington Girls' ; Collcco will begin on Tuesday, February "• A property .situate on The Terrace .is advertised in : this issuo for exchange by ' Wtssri L. Wilson and Co,