ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 19 March 1907, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Per Press Association. , West purl. Jlaivli IS.' A double fatality occurred at Coalbrookdale on Saturday night, Jlrs. Trejer and a two-year-old child beiim drowned in the W'aimangaroa River. At the imp,est held to-day the evidence failed to disclose how the deceased came to get into the river, but it is surmised that the mother, with the child in her arms, had fallen over the embankment ; " VlM ' K "'d"'* Saturday night, aud been drowned. Jlr. ami ■Mrs. Ireyer and child had only recently iulived from the old countrv. Invereargill, March IS. Nicholas Sweet man, an old colonist, living m the Balfour district, died sud<l™l.v oil Sunday, lie was missed, and when search was made, his body was found leaning over a gale.

. Thames, Jlarch 18. I'-lja Leps;ch, all Austrian, aged 27, was killed by a falling tree at Wharnkawa, near Thames, yesterday. Some of deceased relatives were engaged in lulling a large tree which unexpectedly crushed down, carrying another tree which stnich Lepsich on the head. He was rendered unconscious and died shortly after. His companions carried hi in through the bush over rough tracks, to the Thames, a long and weary journey, arriving here after many "fours' tramping. The fatality was purely ac-

A sad circumstance in connection with the suicide of Thomas Mitchell, details of which were telegraphed the other day, is that the shock proved too much for his brother, who now lies in the hospital in a critical mental condition. The brothel's were much attached to one another.