ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 65, 13 April 1909, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

FATAL FALL OVER A CLIFF. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Duncdin, Saturday Night. William Ilnrkin. a. well-dressed man. f'll or threw himself over Hie face of! Logan Point quarry this forenoon, and was fatally injured, lie died in the hospital without regaining consciousness shortly after admission. A young man at a boatshed in the vicinity heard a cry from the quarry, and on looking there he saw something tumbling down itho rocky face. He and another man hurried. to the quarry and found the unfortunate man at .the bottom of the 'fae», alive but unconscious, his head being badly injured. He was 28 years of age, and was married. The police have been informed that deceased recently came from Auckland, and was living with his wife's parents in Dunedin.

A SUICIDE. Nelson, Saturday. Arthur A. Daly, tailor, shirt hiniself in a disused brewery in Halifax-street. Deceased in January last escaped from drowning in the harbor, when (leorge (iimderson lost his life. That preyed on Daly's mind, and for the last fortnight he was very d"|ircssed. He leaves a widow and five children. Nelson, Last Night. At the inquest on A. A. Daly, who died on Saturday from a gunshot wound, a verdict of suicide whilst temporarily iiiKiiue was returned. The evidence showed that Daly had been greatly depressed since a touting accident some 'months ago in which his companion lost bis life.

VICTIM OF THE PENIHTY Wellington, Last Night. Some human remains, believed to be those of a victim of the Penguin disaster, were washed luuore ai Tcrnwhiti on Saturday, and were interred by the police some distance above high-water mark.