ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 7, 9 January 1903, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

not puss association. Wanganui, J tnuary 8. A young woman ntmed Alice Bsatriee Walker, lady help to Mr G. £>. Bridge and hia d-mgVer, committed suicide by drowning herself in the bath. Mr and Miss Bridge left for Wellington on Saturday, tearing Mis« Walk r in charge of the house. She stayed with her lister on llondiy, and left on / Tuesday morning, saying she would not be back to lunch, and leaving her watcb, chain, purse, and watcrproofand blouse behind. As her relatives bteime alarmed, a ■sarch was mide last eveaiog, and h j r body was founl by the police in the bith, partly clothed. The bath was half full of water, and underae* h d«ceased's head wa« the iron foo 1 ; of a lathe s-cured round her neck with a ■kipping rope Dec -ased bad been in ill health and " despondent for soma time. Bkisbanz, January 8. Two children have diid of ptomaine poisoning after eating oerned bsef, Mid & third is serieualy ill. Burro*, January 8. Yesterday a young man named Patrick Breen, working in a low level mine, in some unaccountable manner fell down one of the pastes for a distance of 80 fe*t. He was picked up unconscious and conveyed to the hospital. No bones were broken, but h : s head and other parts of his b>dy were badly bruised. Breen was delirious last night, bu 1 ; hi* condition is improving. Auckland, January 8. Geo. L Oole, 88 y?ars of age, who arrived in the colony in 1842, was found burned to detth in the ruii s of his house at Papaku'a this morninr. Nelson, Janmiy 8. Mr Martin Kerr, of Go do a Downs, dropped down dead at his residence this evening. He was between 40 acd 50 years of age. It is supposed death was due to heart di<ewe.