ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 154, 25 March 1919, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

FATAL PEA-RIFLE ACCIDENT. By TelcffraDli.-Preae Association. Invercargill, Maroh 24. A telegraph messenger, Edward O'Toole, aged fifteen, while out rabbit shooting with a pea-rifle, was fatally shot. While attempting to detach the stock from the barrel of the gun the weapon discharged, tho bullet- .entering the abdomen. An operation was performed, but tho lad died before midnight. WOMAN DROWNS HERSELF IN A BATH. . : Dunodin, March 24. Mrs. Euphemiu Bonfell, aged 53, was found drowned in a bath at her residence yesterday. At an inquest to-day her husband said the deceased had not been in good health for some time, and was subject to fits of depression. An verdict was returned that deceased drowned herself while in an unsound state of mind. SUDDEN DEATH OF A CARRIER, Nelson, March 24. Philip Joseph M'Namara... formerly a railway giinrd and now a carrier, was discovered lying on the Port lload, and, succumbed in a few seconds. It is presumed he fell oft' his express. He leaves k widow and a largo family of young children. PAINTER FALLS FIFTY FEET. By Teleerauh.—Vres« Association, i Auckland, March 24. Albert Asher, aged 40 years, a noted footballer, fell n'l'ty i'eet while painting at tho gasworks, and sustained a compound dislocation of tlho wrist and a fracture of the left thigh.