Accidents and Fatalities.
(Per Press Association.) Masterton, October 8. A little girJ, aged three years, daughter I of Wm. Morris, butcher, was fatally injured by a runaway horse this afternoon. The child was dashed against a verandah post and her skull fractured, death resulting in a few minutes. ! Auckland. Oct. 8. At the inquest on Jas Franks, who fell from a window in the top storey of the Wayerley Hotel, a verdict of accidental death was returned. There was no evidence to show how or why he fell out of the window. At tbe inquest of William Ward, waiter on tbe Alameda, who died on board this morning from tbe effects of swallowing carbolic acid in mistako for whiskey, tbe jury returned a verdict of accidental death, -with a rider, that in their opinion poisons of any kind should not be accessible to any person but tbe doctor and bis assistants. Deceased was a single man and was 34 years of age. He was Irish and had been in tho ship for four years. He has a brother in New York and a sister in Liverpool. Napier, October 8. McAually, who was injured at tbe breakwater, died at the hospital last night.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 87, 9 October 1896, Page 2
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