ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 306, 31 December 1907, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dunedin, Last Night. Advice lias been received to the effect fliat William Allan Brown, aged .10 years, was drowned in the Wangaloa creek near Kaitangata yesterday. The bodv has been recovered. I Napier, Last Night. A drowning fatality occurred here thirt. evehing. A man named Arthur Sutton, who is a storekeeper at Onepoto dully, was bathing in the river near tlie end 'of Carlyle-strcet, accompanied by one of his sous and two men named Chaplin and Moore. After bathing for Some time Sutton got out tjf his depth. The others went to his assistance, but, being all unable to swim, could not save him. An alarm was given, and tlie body was recovered some half an hour later, but life was extinct. Deceased leaves a wife and four children. Wellington, Monday. The body of a woman named Cecilia Coiiolly, wife of Herbert Conolly, was ■ found hanging in a house at Petone 1 yesterday. At the inquest a verdict • of ''Suicide while temporarily insane" t was returned. It was stated that the I woman's husband had left home early - in the month and had not been heard of

, since. 1 Wanganui, Monday. A settler named James Campbell Coni 11011, aged 78, was found dead in bed at 1 Westmere this morning. It is supposed i? that death was due to natural causes. s A serious accident occurred last eveni. ing. • When Mr and Mrs Arthur Coe were driving down Duric Hill the horse ii bolted and both were thrown out ol i' the trap. Mr foe was badly bruised and shaken and Mrs Coe was removed i- to the hospital in an unconscious state i] suffering from concussion of the brain r She had not regained consciousness al 1. noon to-day, and her condition is eriti h cal. o [A later message states that Mrs Coc ■ - is dead.]

Tailiape, Monday. An inquest was held concerning the death of Thomas Morton, aged 72. who died suddenly while' ijnloading a truck at Ohakiiiie station; The doctor's evidence pointed to death being due to rupture and aneurism of the oarta. A verdict was returned accordingly. Napier, Last Night. A man, whose name is at present unknown, was killed on the railway line between Xapier and Port Ahuriri shortly after 10 o'clock this evening. He is believed to be a sailor from one of the ocean-going steamers in port, anil to have wandered on to the railway line in an intoxicated condition, with the result that he was run over by the train and both legs broken. Wellington, Lust Night. This afternoon Mr. T. E. Donne receded a telegram stilting that UeurgC.. Napier, a porter nft-fie- Mount Cook Hermitage, is miyninir. It is feared that when he was returning from Ball Hut last evening with some horses lie fell from his horse while crossing the Hooker River. Hl* haf. was found early this morning some distance below the' ford. A thorough search is being made by Mr. I). McDonald, manager at the Hermitage. Wanganui, Last Night. An old man mimed .lames Coiinon. aged 78, died suddenly on Sunday night. At an inquest to-day a verdict of death from heart disease was returned. Nelson, Last Nighty A visitor named Frederick. Aldridge, from Palnierston North, collided wittfa telegraph post on the Haven road cycle track to-day while cycling. He sustained flesh wound on the face, and concussion of the brain, and was sent to the Hospital.