ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
o MAN CRUSHED TO DEATH. By Telegraph—Press Association. Core, February 25. James Garden, aged 26, a married man, was killed on a steep hill near Fairplaco, East Riversdale, on Saturday, through a wagon containing fencing posts capsizing. At the inquest yesterday a verdict of accidental death was returned. Deceased's wife resides in South Dunedin. SUICIDE OF A RETIRED FARMER. Christchiiroh, February 25. John Truman, a retired farmer, in comfortable circumstances, was found hanging in a shed at Spreydon yesterday. Deceased left a letter setting forth that he was determined to do away with himself; that probably he would be thought mad, but that ho was not mad. He was suffering from sciatica. Believing that he was permanently disabled, he did not desire to become a burden on his children. Tho writer added the information as to where his body would be found. At the inquest the verdict was that deceased committed suicide by hanging himself while he was of unsound mind.
FOUND DROWNED
ChftStchurch, February 25. The body of a man in an advanced stage of decomposition was washed up on the beach at Taylor's Mistake, near Sumner, 'yesterday. At an inquest it was identified as that of E-dmond Morrison Blake, a labourer, aged fifty, who had a hut in the neighbourhood and had been missing for more than a fortnight. The verdict returned was: "Found drowned, there being no evidence to show how deceased got into the water."
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 136, 26 February 1918, Page 6
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242ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 136, 26 February 1918, Page 6
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