ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 60, 5 April 1909, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

;■ A GUMDIGGER'S SUICIDE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Whangarci, April J. An Austrian gumdigger, a middle-aged, single man, named Mann Jianjan, was found dead yesterday at Kaitara with his throat cut ami a razor alongside his body. Deceased had apparently necn dead for several days. Despondency is alleged to have been the cause w'tlie. tragedy. I

THE PETOXE FATALITY. ■Wellington, April :). The jury's verdict concerning the death at Petone of .Samuel Wilson found that death was due to severe shock received by a fall with the roof of a building iu course of erection at the Meat Company's Works. The jury expressed the opinion that me root fell by reasou of the braces at both ends being removed too soon, and by the fact that principals numbered 1 and i had not been placed in proper position.

RAILWAY FATALITY. ~ ~ ~ Timaru, April 3. iranklyn Keeley, an inmate of the in , II' 3 Uome ' was run ovt '>' a "« killed this morning by an engine when crossing the railway line. He was 84 years of age and slightly deaf. FOUND DROWNED.

, , Uiristehurch, Last Night. 'The body of William Bcrhaiul «8 years of age, was found floating in the Estuary. He had been missing since February 15th and was of unsound mind. He apparently fell into the river.