ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 52, 17 October 1914, Page 3

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

[Pbb Press Association.] Hamilton, October 16. Edwin Rowe, aged 22 was found dead in a boarding-house at Morrinsville this morning, shot through the head. Evidence at the inquest showed that deceased, a late member of the R.N.Z.A., arrived at Te Aroha from Wellington a fortnight ago. Prior to going to Morrinsville he had been drinking heavily. A verdict of suicide while temporarily insane was returned. Auckland, October 16. James Alan Gordon, a railway guard, was very seriously injured at Wellsford, about seventy-two miles north of Auckland, this morning, as a result of being crushed between a truck and the staging. Gordon is a married man, about thirty years of age. Wellington, October 16. The body of Edward Spada, ship’s fireman, who disappeared from the wharves about three weeks ago, vas recovered in the harbour to-day. An inquest on the body of Robert Walter Sadler, 13 years of age, who was drowned in the Kaikorai stream, was held to-day. The evidence showed that the boat in which deceased and his brother were paddling started to sink. Deceased remained seated in the boat until it almost sank, and then clung to it. A verdict of accidental death was returned.