ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.
KILLED AT A RAILWAY CROSSING. [Per Press Association.] Napier, May 22. A married man named James Olliver, aged 55 years, was killed at a railway crossing just outside the borough boundary this afternoon. He was carrying a sheet of iron on his head, and walked right in front of the outbound train. His hack was broken. SUICIDE BY SUFFOCATION. Auckland, May 22. A carpenter named Henry Alexr. Fay, returning home from work in the evening, found his wife and an 18-months-old child lying dead in the kitchen near a gas ring, indications pointing to suicide on the part of the mother. When -he left for work in the morning, both were in bed, and nothing was apparently wrong. He can give no cause for the occurrence. The doctor stated that they had been dead about six hours.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 15, 23 May 1913, Page 5
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139ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 15, 23 May 1913, Page 5
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