ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 103, 28 May 1909, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

LOST OVERBOARD. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Thursday. A sailor named Thomas Thompson 'has reported to the police that he in a small .yacht in the harbor on Tuesday night, when a squall stnuk the yacht. His companion. Eggcrton, also a sailor, fell overboard. Thompson states that he got out the dingy and searched, but lieitEcr saw nor heard anything oi Eggerton.

FOUND DIIOWNED. Napier, Last Night. The police haw received information that the body of Robert Mclntyre, a shepherd employed on G. Onnond's estate at ilahia, who was reported missing a fortnight ago, has been found in a creek.

A MAiN DROWNED. Auckland, Thursday. The man reported to have been drowned in the harbor is Walter Eggerton, llot Hegerty. He is a married man. A YOUNG WOMAN'S DEATH. Dunedin, Last Night. The inquest on the body of Lucy Kingston, aged 20 years, who died at the hospital recently, was concluded today. The only witness called was lire. Howler, carrying on business in the Arcade. She said she did not know the woman named Lucy Kingston and did not rumember a young woman calling at her shop on April 23. Deceased was not supplied with medicine by witness. The Coroner returned a verdict to the effect that death was caused by purulent peritonitis and taxacinia, resulting from septic infection in connection with a miscarriage.

INQUEST. Christchurch, Lasi Xight. An inquest was held this afternoon touching the death of Agnes Morton Brown, who died suddenly last night while being driven in a cab from the railway station to her residence. The Coroner returned, a verdict that death was due to disease of the arteries of the brain.

FATAL FALL OVER A CLIFF. . Ashburton, Last Night. Hugh Urquhart, aged 26, single, was killed by falling over a cliff while rabbit poisoning at Mesopotamia yesterday afternoon. Deceased's parents reside close to Geraldine. About three years ago a man named Gillraan was killed in the same manner in the same locality, and the country is known to be very rough and dangerous.