ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 69, 29 March 1913, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

(Per Press Association.) Masterton, March 28. A man named Peter Jucoben was burned to death in a cottage at I- oa.therston, .this afternoon. ; v No details are to hand. Gisborne,' March 28. A man known as Scotty attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat at Peikarae last night. As he was being brought into town by a waggon to-day he jumped over the Tapuao Bridge into the sea,, and was drowned. His attendant made a brave- effort to save him. Thames, March 29. Both bodies of the man and woman at Te Aro drowned in the Thames river on Saturday through jumping overboard after benzine had ignited on their launch, were found. At 'the inquest a verdict of accidentally drowned was returned. Waihi, March 29. Two men named William Hyde,-aged 34 (married), and r /hos. Mcßride, aged 20 (single), were killed in the Talisman mine last night by a rope -breaking and precipitating the cage on -which the men were travelling to the bottom of the shaft, a distance of 600 feet. The bdoy of Hyde was found at the bottom of the shaft in a terribly mangled condition. : Mcßride’s body was found jammed in the shaft.