ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 362, 13 April 1910, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

I Nil I'RED MAN DISCOVERED. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Yesterday. A disc of alleged attempted suicidt* occurred at Newtown last nrght. James Ford, of I{iih^ifold street, who is said to be an employee 01 Uie City Council, was foatnl by his wife, on her return about 11.15. iying on a bed with his throat cut. He was removed to the. hospital, where, ai> far as can bo learned, there is a good chance of his recovery. Ford, who is about titty years of age, has been in South Africa, and suffered there from enteric fever, rrom the after effects of which it is believed lie has not recovered. UODY I'OUND. Clinstehnreb, April 12. The naked body of a man was found lloating in the l.ytteltori harbour this morning. It was in an advanced stage of decomposition, and had lost the head und one leg. It had evidently been in the water many weeks. A piece of cloth round the loins' looked like tlie remnant of bathing trunk*-, and it is summed that the body was that of a man drowned while bathing. No recent accident of the kind has occurred nt Lvtlelton, and it is suggested that the body may be that of one of two lads drowned at New Brighton on Febrnarv B.