ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 98, 3 August 1910, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

OHILD KILLED BY A HORSE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. ; ; Christchurcfc, Tuesday. The two"year-old son of W. Scarr, of "Fendalton; was killed lasi night. He strayed from the house to a road where a horse: was feeding. The animal suddenly kicked put, hitting the child's head and fracturing the. skull.

FOUND DROWNED. Dunedinj, Tuesday. Jessi* 1 Litfelejohn, cfideat daughter of one,of the„,oJdest settters of Waiwera, was .found' drowned in a 'water race near her parents' house. Indications point. to Deceased, who was about fifty years of age, ha'd been nursing Her .sister, who had' been ill for some time. , A WIDOW'S NARROW ESCAPE. Ashburton;. Tuesday. A Woman named Rowley, a widow 65 to 70 yea,rs of age, was found floating; in acreeS at Allenton. Sfte was rescued! and;'revived. She had not been in the water long; and it is not teiown how sh» got there. .She suffers from insomnia. . Ashburton>, East Night. ( It has transpired that Mrs. Rooney (not Jlowley), who attempted to commit suicidenat Ashburton, is eighty years of age. She stripped off her upper g»r-' meats and jumped into a. cTeek. She admitted to the police that she intended to commit suicide as no one oared fort her.: ; \,.. " ■■ She had been .contemplating tho act for a long time. .