ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 310, 7 January 1908, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Pei Press Association. Dunedin, Monday. | Donald Ogilvic, who was staying at the Glasgow Restaurant, was aecidentally suffocated on Saturday n ; ght. Dunedin, Last Night. At the inquertt 011 the body of Donald Ogilvie, fouml dead in the Glasgow Restaurant 011 Saturday night, tin? jury re- 1 | turned a verdict that death was due to yulloeation by falling out of bed when I in a state of intoxication, i I'VihPisg, Monday. | A mail named Robert Henderson was | drowned yesterday while bathing at the

mouwi OI Lilt; mvi. • •n- mmt was recovered to-dny. 1 West port, Monday. Mrs. Smith, wife of a well-knowi cattle-dealer, was bathing here with tw; younger ladies in shallow water. Sir ulepped over a ledge into eight feet o water and was drowned. W'aihi. Last Night. John 11. Sainsbury, licenser of th Wli-nuf'im-.if:i Hotel. wna found dp.id i

liis bedroom. Kvidwe at the inquest,! showed that Ito had taken an overdose | >l | of chlorodyne. ]fc bad had financial and j K * domestic worries. II" was *ixty 10 of and he'd the New Zealand war | medal. j Taihape, Monday. lH * A man mined Arthur Thomas, eml' s ployed on a farm at Oliutn, committed m ' suicide, by cutting Ira throat with a ire razor. Wellington, Monday. T-, I'redrrivk Kodiry, who was nnployi-d jn- 011 the learner was di«-

covered in a inm-aing house eariy u> s i morning with a severe wound in t''. 1 ihroat and a blood-stained razor in hi* I hand. It is not considered probable that | the wound will be fatal. j Marton, Last Night. ] Robert Henderson, aged 'll years, of Ohakea, Bulls, was drowned at Parewanui beach yesterday whilst bathing in the surf. He was carried out by the breakers. The body has not yet Wen recovered. Christchurc'h, Last Night An inquest was held this afternoon touching the death of Thomas Godfrey Bezett, whose body wsvs found on tho t>eaeh at New Brighton on Sunday morning. The deceased's camping mate, Frederick fSeorge Gardner, said that Bezett went to New Brighton on Friday last, and he had then a gun in h : s possession. He behaved during his stay at New Brighton in an excitable manner, as if he were drunk. He informed witness he was in trouble at Temuka, and that he was leaving the colony on Monday. He was peculiar in his manner on Saturday night, but he waa not under the influence of liquor. He talked a lot to himself. He had previously told witness atout a friend who had committed suicide. The jury returned a verdict that the deceased committed suicide whilst of unsound mind.

FOUND DROWNED. A very sad death occurred /On Sunday, when Mrs C. Shaw was found' drowned in the Waipukuiti river. The' Record reports that the deceased lady 1 had only returned from New Plymouth, l where she had been for her confinement, a little over a week ago. The housekeeper, who had been m charge during her absence, was unable to stop longer, which, added to Mrs Shaw's weak state, produced severe melancholia, and whielf ended in her death. A peculiarly sad incident is that the day was the anniversary of her birthday, an J her husband and eldest little girl were in towt on Saturday, an? amongst other things, purchased the usual little presents for 1 the children's offering on the day. These were duly made, and Mr Shaw went to his milking, there being not the slightest sign of any unusual state of either mental or bodily health, but Mr Shaw returning the children said they could not find their mother. Mr Shaw set out towards a neighbor's, but seeing 011 the way that a person's track' left the road at the bridge, he followed' it, and very soon came to the body of his lute wife, which he instantly removed from the water and then ran for a neighbor. Means for artificial respiration were used, but without avail, and a messenger wa9 despatched to Inglewood for medical aid, but which was of course useless. The deceased lady leaves a widower and Ave little children—the oldest nine years and the youngest only a month—to mourn their terrible loss, and to learn from bitter experience how dreary a place even home is without a mother. The family will have the sympathy of everyone in ther sad bereavement.

Tlie Wanganui Chroncile reports that Mr W. R. Tuck met with a ferious accident on Sunday. Whilst bicycling on the river bank a dog crossed the roadway, ran into the machine, and upset the rider, who fell very heavily, being taken up in an unconscious condition, Mr Tuck was promptly attended to, and taken to his hotel, everything possible being done _to revivt> consciousness, but up to the time of going to press withou 1 avail. 1