ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 50, 24 March 1909, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

FOUND DltOWN'liD. I),V Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, March 21). The body of a man, subsequently identified as that of Thomas Harry Randall, a litter by occupation, was found in the harbour this morning. FOUL PLAY SUSPECTED.

Christchureh, March 23. Suspicious circumstances appear to have developed iii connection with the death of a man, aged 71), named Andrew Douglas Hardie, whose body was found lying outside a cottage at Richmond on Sunday. A post mortem examination revealed the fact that the man's back and right ribs were broken. The body was found with the heap supported and rolled | up in a Maori kit. Evidently it had been moved to a spot where it lay. At the inquest the Coroner stated that in such cases it was not usual to proceed without a jury, and adjourned the inquiry until this afternoon.

INQUEST. j Wellington, Last Night. 1 At the inquest on the body found in lite harbor lln< morning, deceased was identified a# Thomas Randall, formerly employed by the Birmingham Waggon Company, of Birmingham, and lately from Australia. Deceased was about 4.1 years of age. In February hi' was before the Court on a charge of vagrancy. In December last .he was enquired for in the list of "missing friends" I published. The verdict was that do-c-.-asud was found drowned, and apparently it wa>: a case of suicide.

svpposki) drowning fatality AT TONGAPORUTU.

Our correspondent at Tongaporutn telephoned last night; that it was leared I a sad drowning accident has occurred,. resulting in the death of Mr. J. E. Gulliver, the schoolmaster. From the particular available, it appears that Mr. Gulliver, after dismissing the school at 3.3(1. with his little boy went, it is presumed, to the river to bathe. Not having returned at 0.30, Mrs. Gulliver became alarmed, and going to the river, found the little boy, but no trace of her husband. She immediately gave the I alarm and word \\\\< convevod to the

Head'*, where Mr. O'Donnell was fixing the lights prior to the departure of the s.s. Ttitoitoi. Mr. O'Donnell, with Captain Williamson and others, immediately proceeded to the spot, but up to a ' late hour -no trace of the missing man ■ had been discovered. The river at the spot where Mr. Gulliver is supposed to have entered the river is about eight feet deep. lie was not a strong swimmer, and it is believed was wearing a pair of artificial swimming wings at the time. A thorough search is to be instituted this morning, and the river systematically dragged.

There seems little doubt that the vor&t fears will he realised. The sincerest sympathy is Mt for Mrs. Gulli-