ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 123, 15 May 1908, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

ACCIDENTALLY SHOT. Per Press Association. Blenheim, Thursday. A young married man named Owen Mcllnl:', a well-known footballer, employed liy tile Corporation, was accidentally killed through his gun exploding while iie was strapping it to his bicycle.

YOUNCi WOMAN'S SUICIDE. Ashburton, Thursday, A young married woman named Mrs, lleriot, wife of a Papanui resident, who is employed in his father's store, committed suicide by hanging herself to u tree in the farm orchard of a relative named .1. Evans, whom she was visiting at Spivadcagle, sixteen miles Iroat Ashburton. Deceased retired to bed as usual last night, but later her absence was discovered through the cries of her two young children. Several hours' search failed to reveal her whereabouts, but ai daybreak her body was found; suspended from a tree, quite dead. Nu reason is assigned for tlie deed. The police are investigating.

INQUEST. Napier, Last Night. At an inquest at Meanee touching the death of John Tracey, an old resident, who died while staying for a night at a neighbor's house, the jury returned the following, verdict: —"That deceased met his death from enlargement or fatty degeneration of the heart."

SUDDEN DEATH. Dunedin, Last Night. A man named John Alexander McMillan, aged about 40 years, died suddenly this evening. *He was, with three companions, engaged in stocktaking in A, ami T. Burt's premises, and at about 0.45, while the men were having tea, he rose, walked two steps, and fell backwards. When the doctor arrive life was .extinct. Deceased leaves a wife and family. ;

SAD DROWNING FATALITY. Dunedin, Last Night. The Clyde correspondent of the Daily TinU's reports that a young man named James Shriek lost his life last night while attempting to cross the Molyneaux in a chair. lie missed his seat in tho chair as it moved from the staging, and hung on to the side of the box until immediately over the centre of tho river, where lie remained for some time. His call for help was heard. He loft go his hold, and fell into the river. He floated for some distance and finally ■disappeared in a whirlpool about 200 yards from the scene of the accident, lie was a native of Futearoa.