ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 297, 25 January 1910, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

A FARMER'S SUICIDE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Whangarei, Monday. George Drcwitt, aged 47, formerly a permanent way railway ganger for' !7 years, and now a fanner, was found by his children hanging dead from a limb of a tree near his house at Kaurihohoiv. The cause is unknown. DRIVEN TO SUICIDE. Wanganui, .Monday. David Ronx Buisson died last night as a result of talcing a solution ol match heads on Friday. The eaiwe supposed to be worry over losing the license of a billiard room at the last meeting of the Borough Council, whi'-ii was taken away owing to his being fined ClO for keeping a gaming-house. De. ceased was formerly a botelkeeper here I!c leaves a wife and family. Wanganui, Last Night. .At til:- inquest oil the body of David Rmix" liuisson, who died as a result o| drinking a solution of match heads, a verdict of suicide while temporary in-si-iic was returned. ' NOT DEAD YET. Auckland, Last Night. Near "Darsjaville last week, a man wadiscovered hv some bushmen suspended to n tree by his braces. Thev cut hiin down, and went fo get assistance »n carry the body to Tlelensville. On theii retiu-n. tli<> supposed corpse had disappeared. filter oil the man was discover e<T. and was brought to Auckland to-day in charge of a policeman. CHILD'S BODY FOUND. Christcihurch, Last Night. . Early this afternoon the body of a child was picked out of the river Avon in the tipper reaches near Wairarapa Terrace. The child's body was first noticed by a man named Bennett, who told another man named Larraman of what he had seen. Larraman brought the 'body to the shore with a stick, and lifted it out of the water to the riverbank. The bodv was quite naked, and had evidently been in the water for some time, for in addition to being dis colored.and somewhat decomposed the richt fool was missing, bavin? presumably been -bitten off by eels. The police were informed of the matter, and look possession of the body and removed it to the morgue. Christchurch. Later. Tbo lio'lv fntiid in the Avon to-dav ;s Mr" nf -i stillborn child. No inquest, rill ther"fev- be held.