FATAL EXPLOSION

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 101, 30 April 1902, Page 2

FATAL EXPLOSION

A MAN'S HBAD BLOWN OFT. It is strange how fatalities would ■••»• «o run in sequeccp. Yesterday wa reported a luse of a man blowing hi». bfad off at Auckland, and to-day we. have to record* a similar ucsurrewse, in, which the fctssopm to point to a. determined case of suicide. Shortly after 11.30 last; nighta violent explosion was heart! upstair* at the Taranaki Ho; el, and on inqouy Mjbi Buckthought, tbo license*, found it had 1 occurred in a room occupied by a ma* earned Neilson, who came from Tongaporutu, and had been staying at th»> hotel for the last week or tan days. Oonstabltt Russell, who was in th» vicinity when the explosion oeourred, was called in and found the doer locked. Oo finally forcing an entranos the room was found to be full of smoke from some powerful explosive* such as dynamite or gelignite, and NeiUon's body was discovered lying on the floor, the bead being blown off, and the walls of the room spattered with. blood and considerably knocked about. Neilton was a man about 36 or 28 years of age, and is supposed to be married. What induced him to commit the rash act U unknown «t present. An inquest will probabi'v b» bold to-day.