ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 118, 11 June 1901, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

FIB PBBW ASSOCIATION. Auckland, Jure 8. Mabel Pres 1 -, single, aged 23, committed suicide by bangieg at Ooehunga. She had bien strange tome time. CHWSTcnuf ch, June 8. At the inquest on the body of Mary Hodk'oß Atkimon, forirerly known as Mrs. Worthington and Mr*. Plmkett, the evidence showed that de*th was caused by asphyxia due to drowning. A vtrdict of suicide by drowning while tempvarily inune was returned. Toonc&s Bousel, or Stevenson, a gre»ser on board the steamer Gothic, WBB found on the railway line between Chrutchurch aßd Lyttelton las 1 : night with his aku'l fracturid. It is surmised that he was going to visit friends at Wcolston and f, 11 off tbe train. He wea tiken to Lyt'elton, where an epera-! tion was perform*!?, but he died this morning. An inquest was held this afternoon, when a verdict was returned "that be met bis death by falling off aj moving train. Deceased was a native of Yorkshire, and shipped in London.

= Napier, June 10. A man named James Murphy, who had been working in Mr -Donelly's swamp at Criwoge, wai founi dead this afternoon in a drain on the es'at'l At present no particulars are to hand H to ho<v he came by bis death.