ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 133, 27 May 1908, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

TUACiHDY AT GEO. It Mas reported yesterday in Kaiiotu, and «tilisc(|iieiitly continued |,_ v Ki-a)pli from Opiinake, thai tli<* 'body of a young man named Arthur Percy Cooper had been found on tile Ifeicii near tile month of Hie Oeo rivetf. He was lying face downward*, with a sliotbetween liis Tin' diseoverv was inaile liy .Mr. l-'red Pepperell. who at once convoyed information t 0 Constable llickniiui. It is feared (lint (lie case is one of suicide.

f'oopor \vi\« a man. aliout 21 1 years of a«{(\, and was at Oeo in the cap-iH-i(.y of travelling reprosentativc of Mossrs. S. 11. White and Son, He was in their employ for some lime last year, when he left to take up a position with Mr. J. C, fliHett in Ilawera. Whilst (ht-ro he was stricken with illness, and. upon leaving Urn ITawora hospital, n\entoi'cd White and Sons' service lie was of rather frail physique. On Monday, speaking to one of tho momliors of his firm, he complained of hi« ill-hoalih. lie had jnany friends in Xew Plyinoutli ;ind throughout the district. "Down tin- Coast" ho "was wellknown as a humorous singer, and he used also to assist at concerts locally. IV was a native of England, and camo fo Xew Zealand about four years ago from South Africa, where ho had spent two years. So far as is known he has no relatives in the colonv.

l'cr Press Association. Christciiurcii, La.st Might. Ihu death of a young woman was reported to the police yesterday, and an inquest was held to-dav. The medical evidence was to the effect that death was probably due to septicaemia, deceased having apparently suffered a partial miscarriage, induced by tho tne of an instrument. The man who lived with the woihiiu stated he. was the father of the child, and had endeavored to persuade her not to avoid maternity. She was averse to seeing u doctor, hut became ill, and he summoned a- doctor. She was then in exl-rciuia and died shortly afterwards. The inquest was adjourned, till Thursday for analysis. Peatriee Shiels, a child 5 years of age, admitted to the hospital on Saturday, sniveling fnun severe burns as a result of her clothes catching fire, died yesterday. A verdict y>f accidental death was returned at the inquest. Napier, Last Night. A married woman named Elizabeth Hark, aged (il years, wife of Arthur Clark, a cook, was found dead in the backvard of her residence in Chaucer road this afternoon. In tho morning she seemed to be in her usual hoaltih". She was a sufferer from asthma.

After partaking of oatmal porridge and bananas at breakfast four children of a resident of Hastings showed svmptoms of poisoning, but the doctor" succeeded in bringing them round.

Fireman McCorkindale took suddenly ill in the cab of his loconVOtive when the train was between Te Ante and Hastings to-dav. He was conveyed to a private hospital at Hastings, where he is progressing favorably. Creymouth. Tuesday. Pobort l.umsden. aged f>o years, 'was killed in the Stale coal mine by a fall of coal {his morning. He leaves a wife and four children.