ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 72, 30 July 1913, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

DIED ALONE

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Gisborne, July 29

An unknown man, believed to belong to Wairoa, died on the main Wairoa road in the roadman’s hut, at Pari-

k.mapa] about tour o’clock this morning. The body was removed to Patutahi. So far it has not been identified.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE

Auckland, July 29

At an early hour this morning a married woman, named Florence Kate Aggers, who lived at Ponsonby, was found in the kitchen of her residence with her throat cub. Her husband was aroused about 5.30 a.m. by sounds in the kitchen, and went there to find his wife lying on the floor, bleeding profusely from a deep wound in the throat, beside her being a razor. He went and summoned a constable and Dr. Keith. The latter found that though the gash across the throat was a severe one, it was not sufficiently deep to have injured the; thorax, and after dressing the wound lie had the patient taken to the hos-j pi tal.

SUICIDE AT AN ASYLUM

Wellington, July 29

Peter Peterson, aged 70 years, wb ) lias been employed as a messenger

at the Porirua Mental Hospital for the past 20 years, was found hanging hy his neck in the grounds of the institution this morning. Life was ox-