ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 83, 28 March 1914, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

TAUftANCA LAUNCH FATALITY.

[P®b Peebb Association.] Taurangja, March 27

Two men were drowned in the wreck of, the launch Victory, named Harry Gray and Joseph Thompson.-, Gray was a son of Mr G. Gray, of Rotorua, and Thompson was a son of Mr A. Thompson, of Pakuranga. The body of Gray was found at the Mount this afternoon, but Thompson’s body is still unrecovered. The launch left Motiti on Wednesday morning at about nine o’clock, and was wrecked the same day.

SUICIDE BY POISONING.

Dunedin, March 27

The Superintendent of Police has received a telegram from St. Bathans, stating that Christina Sutherland Williamson, a married woman, of Blackstone Hill, committed suicide yesterday by drinking a quantity of poison.

A YOUNG MAN’S SUICIDE.

Christchurch March 27

An inquest was held yesterday at Waikari, touching the death of Eric Andrew Black, aged 30-years, a single man, who had been found shot at Parnassus. He left his home at 7.30 a.m. on Wednesday as if to go to Culverden, hut some time later his body was found in a sheep pen. The top of his head was blown off, and there was a gun lying beside him. A verdict was returned that death was due to a gunshot wound inflicted by the deceased while in a state of unsound mind.