ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
AN UNUSUAL ACCIDENT. A man named Fred Burton, residini at Lower Hutt, was admitted to th Hospital last night suffering from in jury to one of his eyes. He was er gaged in opening a- sack of cabbages when the pocket knife he was usin; slipped and cut bis eyeball. In all pre bability lie will lose the sight of his ey« OLD MAN STRANGLES HIMSELF. iHv I'e'.seroDb.—l'ross Association.! Inveroarglll, May 12. A man named George Cooper, betwee: 50 and 60 years of age, strangled hin; self in the lock-up at the , Bluff t< night. Deceased had been drinking and at his home became troublesom< and threatened to commit suicide. H was locked up, and at 7 o'clock appeal ed to have settled down. When a cov stablo went to visit him, however, h was found to have strangled himsel with a long strip of blanket. Decease was a married man. An inquest is t lie held to-morrow.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2460, 13 May 1915, Page 7
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161ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2460, 13 May 1915, Page 7
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