ACCIDENTS FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 67, 22 March 1915, Page 8

ACCIDENTS FATALITIES.

WOMAN'S BODY FOUND IN HARBOUR. Pee Press Association. Wellington, March 22. The body of v a woman named Mary Clifford, married, was found in, the harbour. She was the wife of an engineer and was recently employed as cook at a private hotel. Wanganui, March 38. A sixteen-year-old student of the Hoys' College, named Patrick Gordon, whose parents reside at Hastings, was found dead in a paddock at Putiki this afternoon with a pea-rifle bullet wound in the head. Deceased, who had been suffering from nervous depression, from which, however, he appeared to have recovered, purchased a pea rifle yesterday. At the coronial inquiry Hugh Latter, the headmaster of the college, said the deceased was aged sixteen years, and had been medically attended recently for influenza. Witness could not account for the tragedy. Albert Langton, salesman, said he sold the deceased a pea-rifle and cartridges on Wednesday. Dr. A. Wilson said deceased was highly strung and subject to periodica] fits of depression.. A verdict of suicide while temporally insane was returned.