ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2366, 23 January 1915, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

SUDDEN DEATH AT OTAKI. Mrs. Rawena Griffiths, aged 70 year*,; died suddenly at Otaki yesterday. Ac* cording to the telegraphio advice received at local police headquarters, an inquest will be held. BODY FOUND IN HUTT RrVER.' • The body of Elisabeth Lindsay Murphy, a married woman residing in White's Line, Lower Hutt, who nad been missing since Tuesday morning last, was found in the Hutt River yesterday. Messrs. Thomas Pelham and William Black discovered . the body caught in a groyne in the vicinity of tho Lower Hutt. Deceased was last seen about on Tuesday, when she roused _ some of the neighbours and appeared to. ' bo suffering from tho effects ot alcohol.. She was then in a half-aled conihion,. and her body found yesterday was sinuV larly clad. An inquest will beheld. TE HORO BEACH TRAGEDY. IBy Tolcgxaßh—Trwi Otaki, January 22. The remains of the body of Alfred] -, Hodge, one of the victims of the Ta Horo fatality, was found to-day half-way between.the scene of the drowning and! Waikanae. The body was badly mutilated, and was headless and almost arnw less and legless. ' ■ ■ ' [On January 11 in the evening, H. Hodge and his son wore drowned while fishing off To Horo beach. They were Wiling in a net at the time. The body of tho" father was recovered the same, night. It was thought that the nato mon had boon attaokod by sharks.]', FOUND DEAD IN A BATH. Dunedin, January 22. Mrs. Elizabeth Lambio, aged fiO years, wife of diaries Lambie, omployed in tho Tolcphono Bureau, was found dead in a bath at her houso last evening, Slio had been subject to fainting fits,