ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS
DIED FOR BROTHER
Thomas Walker Zinsli, aged 26, a married man with one child, was drowned in the Wanganui River yesterday afternoon. He wont in to assist a younger brother who was in difficulties, and sank, The body was recovered three-quarters of an hour later. The brother was pulled out by a bystander. DETAINEE COLLAPSES. Detained in the Paparua Prison (Christchurch) for medical treatment, a young man named Vernon Richard Pike collapsed and died late on Friday. Pike was arrested on Friday morning on a charge of helpless drunkenness.— Press Association. SUICIDE. An inquest concerning the death of James Vincent Forde, a single man, aged 32, who was found in a swamp on Friday night at Rakahonka with his throat cut, was held on Saturday at Invercargill. The coroner returned a. verdict that the, deceased committed suicide by cutting his throat while in a, state of temporary insanity.—Press Association.
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Evening Star, Issue 19789, 13 February 1928, Page 11
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152ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS Evening Star, Issue 19789, 13 February 1928, Page 11
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