ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
(By Teleeraph.—Press Association.) Blenheim, September 22. No traco has yet been found of Mrs. Eyes, who has been missing from Eoi Falls since Monday. Dragging operations were carricd out in the Pclorus River yesterday, but without avail. It is feared that tho body has been carried by tho swollen river into the Sound, and little hopes are entertained of its recovery. Christchurch, September 22. Mr. H. W. Bishop, district coroner, held an inquest at Allendale this afternoon on Richard Edward Harris, 60 years of age. The evidence of tho son of the deceased was to the effect that the other members of tho family missed deceased after breakfast on Thursday morning, and wero unable to get any trace of him. Witness returned from Lyttolton on Thursday night, and yesterday, when ho went to the paddock, he found his father hanging dead from a tree at tho back of tlio shed. A verdict of suicide whilst in a state of unsound was recorded.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1240, 23 September 1911, Page 6
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165ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1240, 23 September 1911, Page 6
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