ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 14, 17 January 1903, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Por Press Association. Dunedin, January 16. Themtn who committed xuicida hag bjen identified as Mclodoe, a farmer at Warruna. It is believed that decease! made a similar attempt on hi* life at P.,lmerston a few yeirs ago. John Watt, ag d 73, a rosideat o( Goodwood, died suddenly yesterday. Received 16, 6.12 p.m CuAHTEns Towers, January 16. While a cige containing sir man wag beiug loworel at the Brilliant miu the engine ran away and the ctg* cr'ashei to the bot om.. One man bad a thigh and both ankles broken, two others hiving both ankles broken, while o'hers sui'ained broktn thighs or i nkles.

Dukedin, January 16. Frank Oliver, 50 years of age, was tikdn ill in High street this af'arnoon, and died before reaching the hoip'.tal. He had suffered from heart disease for some time. Wellington, January 19, An i -qu >st was h id to day on the body of J ho Taylor Gordon, a tourist, ag'd 32 year#, who died at the Ooci-di-a ul Hotel ou W.dn slay. Eridecot show.d thai debased 'as a helpless d psomaniac. He h d bsen s>nt out from Englind by friend*, in tin hops that tnv.l would cuie him of the di«aße. He h»d admitted to a medical I m>m tbiit he had taken large quantities of alcohol unknown to his iriends, 24 ump y whiskey bottUa being found in hio iiudro m. A verdict of deith from acute) ale holism was returned, with a ridor that no blame attachable to th.i h. Tel licensee.