ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 173, 25 August 1909, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

CODED TO DEATH. By Telegraph —Press Association. (Jhristchurch, Last Night. Peter Fox, who was gored by a steer at the Lyttelum abattoirs on July 11). died at the Clirislehureh hospital to-day.

AN OPEN VERDICT. Cliristeliurch, Last Night. | T. A. Bailey, District Coroner, held mi enquiry this afternoon concerning the death of Eliza Dilhiway, a widow, whose bodv was found in the Avon yesterday afternoon, and returned a verdict that death was from drowning, but said there was no evidence to show deceased's staie of mind at the time. He thought the man who tumid the body committed an error of judgment by not attempting to recover ihe body directly he noticed it.

KUITOSK]) SUiCIDK. Wi'lliiiL'ton, Last Xigkt. | .!,.:■„ Robert Cathcnyood 21 >™™ °M wood in u laborer ami Has been t-iiiplo.v - cd hv llr. Cun-011, rTjiitrm-tu;-. nf Cniombo street. Xewimui, for souk- tunc.! His parents reside in Mudgcc street. .■:, | Adelaide road. T-'i.r some days the m'.ssimr man has been sleeping in a room over Can-oil's stable, and there be lias been found in the morning by his employer. To-day, however, w'lien Jl.'. Carroll went to the yoiiiijj man's room he found it empty. Bloodstains on the lloor aroused his suspicions, and cau:.ed hill! to look, lie found a pencilled n'He j in the handwriting of Caiherwood bidoing him not to bother, as he would lie out°of the w ay of humanity. It was "I'.hscuuentlv found that on Mouuay ni'i'ni.' whit'-i i.t bis piv.-«u- ■lion,-. Ciuhvnvood had written lw.. oilier b-t----ters, one In his fat her and one to a young woman who had rejected him, and ui each of ihe so he had also expressed his infcitii™ of doing away willi himself. His disappearance was quickly reported to the police, and a. diligent search was carried out all day, but un to to-night no further trace of the missing man had been discovered.

SUICIDF. OP A WIDOW. ('hri-tclum-h. Last Night. Mrs. .folii! Harris, a widow, f>B .vears of age, was found dead in bed at her house at Wool-ion to-day, with a fiveehambereil revolver, one ebaniber being discharged, '.viiig beside iiev. ' Deceased visited her son at Lyttelton on the 10th inst.. and returned home, but had not been seen since that time. The sou went to see his mother today, but found the house locked up, and'on the police breaking in fo.uud the woman as ei scribed, with a bullet wound in her lead.