ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
DROWNUD IN A POND. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Marton, October ,"). A boy aged six years, a son of .Mr. J. Nicholas, carpenter at Marton, was drowned in a small pond last eveuin;;. The body -was not fonnd till this morning. A VEHICULAR FATALITY. • llannevirkc, October .">. Mr. M. Fischer, storekeeper at Xlangatern, met with an accident yesterday which caused his l death a few hours Inter, lie was driving a trap when the animal got beyond his control. Coming down a bill near .Mangatera it capsized the vehicle. Fischer sustained a fracture of the skull and other injuries. He never recovered consciousness. Deceased was highly respected, He leaves a widow and one son.
AN ACCOUNTANT'S SUICIDE. . Auckland. October 5. Mr. John Sutherland Rutherford, a single man 50 years of age, an accountant at the local office of the HuddartParker Company, shot himself through the heart early this morning in a cottage where he resided in Jermyn Street. Deceased's mother is in Dunedin and a married sister in Christehurch. He had been despondent. His accounts are reported to he in good order.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 207, 6 October 1909, Page 2
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182ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 207, 6 October 1909, Page 2
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