ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
FATAL MOTOR-CAR ACCIDENT,
By Telegraph.—l'ross Association. Dunodin, November 23. Mrs. Harry ■ Willsden,- aged 38, was killed last evening through a motorcar capsizing. Her husband alighted to attend to the potrol, first braking tlio car. When ho restarted the engine, the car commenced to run ; backwards down a hill. Before ho'could climb in he seized the steering-wheel, and, while trying to get in, turned thecar into tho tank, and the car overturned. Airs. Willsden was conveyed to tho hospital, where it was found she was dead.
MAN BLOWS HIS HEAD OFF. Hawora, November 23. Ernest James Francis, a single man, was found by bis'Drother yesterday afternoon in his homo with his head blown off. Thoro were no firearms about. At the inquest a verdict was returned that'deceased committed snicido whilst temporarily insane by ex-, ploding a detonator or dynamite in his mouth. Francis had been in indifferent health for some time.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 52, 24 November 1917, Page 8
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153ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 52, 24 November 1917, Page 8
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