ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 98, 14 April 1908, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

FOUND DEAD. Per Press Association. 1 uvorcaigill, Last Night. Tin; Southland Tillies' Otautau correspondent reports that a man named Frederick Nikol, a (icinuan settler nn >mall section at llie oljie of a peat bog al Dm in inontl. was found dead this ;i I lernooii. Deceased liad been summoned lo appear at the Magistrate's ('null on Wednesday to answer a ehui'i'e <il cruelly ill-treating some of his cliilI dreii by tying tlieir hands and feet ami then Hogging them.

CHILD SERIOI'SLY ISITHNT. Auckland, Last NighlA child named Charlotte Rile.v, live months old, was burnt seriously about the arms and face at her home in Newton Road yesterday, The accident occurred through a kerosene lamp upsetting.

ACCIDENT AT FOOTBALL. Wellington, Last Night, •lull!) O'Donoghiie, a single man and ;t stoker al Ihe electric light works, had a leg broken while playing football today. A CHILD'S FATAL FALL. Auckland, April 13. A boy, aged four, named Henry Cuthbertsou, residing in Lincoln Street, I'onsouhy, fell from a verandah railing to an asphalt path seven feet below and sustained injuries from which he died on .Sunday. Jiapiev, Last Night. At an inquest to-day oil the young man Frank Oulton, who met his death in the inner harbor on Sunday, the vrdict was that he was accidentally killed by a shot from his own gun, and that no blame was attached to anybody.