ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 25 September 1907, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Per Press Association. Napier, Tuesday. A three-year-old son of G. W. Gregory was drowned at the Western Spit. He fell off the jetty while playing with his brother and sister. The child's mother, though unable to swim, made a plucky effort to save the little one.

Wellington, Last Night Kookivood Gwynne Potts, a lad of 13, son of Geoffrey Potta, of Koputarua, near Levin, accidentally shot himself with a Winchester rifle on Saturday. He went to his mother's room in tho morning, and while trying the door she heard an explosion and was horrified to find the boy lying on the floor with the top of his skull blown away. The lad was home for the holidays from Wanganui College. Mr. Potts is a well-known settler, formerly of South Canterbury. Dunedin, Last Night. An inquest on the body of William James Fcasey, who "died on Saturday night from injuries sustained as a result of a fall from a bicycle, held to-day, the medical evidence indicated that death was caused by a fractured skull, and that the case was hopeless from the first. The jury returned a verdict that death was due to fracture of the base of the skull, caused by an aecidemal fall from a bicycle.