ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 24, 29 January 1903, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

ran puba* amooiatiok. Wellington, January 28, Two Maori boys, aged 8 ind 4, were playing with their father's leaded gun at Ohau yesterday, whan by accident tbe elder shot his bro her dead. Thames, January 28 Ths body of a mm in a decomposed 'condition, the feautes being almost [ unrecognisable, was discovered, near the cem»teryJclose to the Thames, by boys The policj searched last night, but tbe boys were too frightened to show the place, and the body was no'; found until this morning. It h believed tr> be that of Birdwcod, a bushman from Tairua, Tbe man's thro it was out, and a razor was held in one hand. Hit. mother states that eirjo an accident be was strange at times. He I>f r, hooae a fortn-'ght ago on a visit to bis s'sforV grave. His mother missel tin razor from the house, bu' though anxious a» to his whtmbout* never thought he would commit suicide.

Liter, At thi inquest on William Bird wojd, who was found with his throit cut naar the cemetery, a verdict of suicide while temporarily insane was returned. Deceased's health had been affec ed by an accident some monthback, and the deith of a favorite sister induced melancholia, as after a visit to ber gnva he r. tired to a gilly and cut his throat.

Gisborne, January 28. At the i> qu s concerning the d'ath of James Keunfdy, who died suddenly at Mr Tombleson's statioD, a verdict whs returned that death was due to inflammation of the brain. Deceased was taken ill while working in at. on-hird, and was removed to the bospi'al, wkere he die J.

An inquest wis held by Mr Stanford on Wednesday on the body of the unfortunate woman who died suddenly at the gwl on Tuesday morning. Hugh Molleo, a miner, at preasnt living at Whangamomona, identified the body as that cf his wife, Jane Molleu, whom hu was ezpecti )g by the coach on Thursday. She had been supplied with money for ihe journey. For two year« past she hid beeu suffdriug from beirt disease, and w.g in the habit of 'alking to herself a good de.il. Dr MoOlelaod give (ividence as to the deceased's condition on Monday, a'd Dr Foabs whi had made th* post mortem examiutti n, att-tbuted the ciuse of death to sudd=m syncope owing to heart disetae. A' verdict w.s re uroel accordingly. I