ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 239, 5 November 1903, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

FEB PRESS ASBOCIATIOS, i 'amaku, November 4, The body of a. mat), supposed to be Thomas Lepg, engine driver, Obritfcchuwh, aged about 33, was found in t 1-ißoan at the north of the Waitiki Itiver yesterday. It has not yet been identified. Decfns d was seen by soma li-iherwen ten days ago at the river. He was then wet us if he bad been id the river, and was piven a change of clothing. He was no; seen afterward*. Legg was a member of the Seventh Contingent, and had been wonnded in Is he head. He whs said to be eccentric at timos, Wellington, November 4, In the case of H. Carter, found dead in the Bo tar ical Gardens with hit throat cut i the jury returned a verdiot > f suicide while meatally depressed. "lhn Coroner remarked on the large number cf suicides in the city—nine within three months. Aplin, a firt man on the Manawattx Railway, who had a Jeg cut off by an > ngine this morning, died at the hospital this afternoon. Ashbukton, November 4. On Monday afternoon, Henry Foley, 4 2 years, was thrown out of a trap near Rikaia and killed. Mastketon, November 4. A man natntd Huigh had both iegf Fractured to-day through a waggon capsizing while comiog down Bennett'a Hill an the laueru-rjad. He wu removed to the hospital.