Second Edition ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.
CHILD’S SAD END. [pjf.li Press Association.]
Napier, June 19,
Clifford Oldham, aged seven, died as the result of falling into a copper. The child's mother, on hearing screams from the washhouse, ran in, and found the child partly immersed in boiling Water. The little fellow succumbed after three clays from congestion of the lungs, due to shock.
SUICIDE IN GAOL.. Auckland, June 19
Austin Vincent Carroll, aged thirty, who had been remanded on a charge of indecent assault on a little gill, committed suicide in a cell in Mount Eden gaol last night. He was found dead at seven o’clock this morning. Apparently* he had used the 4towel as i a belt, fastening one end round his neck and the other round the bai s of the window, and had jumped from hia hammock and was strangled. He leaves a wife and two children.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 37, 19 June 1913, Page 6
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148Second Edition ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 37, 19 June 1913, Page 6
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