ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
FATAL JUMP FROM A BRIDGE. . (By Telecrapi.—Press Association.) Creymouth, November 24. George Arthur Smith, aged forty, a. married man, and a visitor from Christchurch, committed suicide by jumping from the Cobden Bridge this afternoon. Smith was recently released from a mental hospital 011 probation. The police ate dragging for tho body, which has not yet been recovered. A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE. Auckland, November 24. Mrs. Ruth Eckett, of Ellerslie, Boarded the wrong train at Newmarket, and in attempting to leap off after the train left she fell between two carriages, but lay between the rails, and had a miraculous escape from death. ' She was picked up stunned and badly 'cut, and was taken to the Hospital. Her condition is not serious.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2316, 25 November 1914, Page 3
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123ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2316, 25 November 1914, Page 3
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