ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2414, 20 March 1915, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

BODY IN THE HARBOUR. 'A boy fishing at.the Miramar Wharf • yesterday afternoon brought up tho S body of a man on his line. Ho became frightened. and let the body drop, but riot before some adults had . seen it. Tho. police were communicated y and digged the harbour in the il "vicinity, but were not. able to/recover y- the remains. l It ; is ' thought that it r may haw ..been the man . Kirltus, the I, Miramar borough ranger, who has been f missing for 'some time,. , . e 'GUN ACCIDENT AT GISBORNE. • Y (Br Telegrftlili.—Press Aasoclatloti.) cisborne, March 19. 0. L.'Allen, dairy farmer at Te Karaka,'whilst pulling a gun after him 5 through a fence, was shot in the abdo- • moil. " His coudition is serious, and I he has been removed to tho hospital. s""~" ' ' '■ 5 DROWNING FATALITY FEARED. , "j / , Westport, March 19. «. : The. boat ..which was missing ifrom y Mokihinui, and in which was a boy "" named-Henderson, seven years of, age, i was found on the 6ea beach this morn- • ing, but' there was no sign of the: boy.' • Tho-tug-Mana went out to search. - J A COLLEGE BOY'S SUICIDE. . ' ; VVanganul, March-19. t A coronial inquiry was held to-day r into:tlie circumstances surrounding the s death .of Patrick Gordon, a Wanganui 1 College boy,, found dead yesterday- at , Putiki with a pea-rifle bullet-wound in the forehead. Hugh Latter, headt master of the college,, said the de-" . was" aged sixteen, years, and had . been jnedically. recently for [ -influenza... --Witness could not', account /• for"' the "tragedy. Albert'Langton, ;' "salesman," said that he sold deceased a ; pea-rifle and cartridges on Wednesday. ' Dr.- A'-'-Wilsoii- said the''deceased was -.. highly-strung ".and subject to periodical -fits^of.. depression, A vordjet of suicide ' 'ivhile'temporarily" insane was returned.