ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
A DRIVING FATALITY. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Masterton, Last Night. Alexander McHutcheon, clerk of the CastlepointvCounty Council, was driving to Masterton from Tenui to-day, when the horses bolted. He was thrown out and dragged a number of yards, and had his skull fractured and his neck broken through striking a culvert. The deceased, was was seventy' years old, leaves one/ adopted daughter. He was a widower. •FOUND DROWNED. :. Napier, Last Night. The Napier police received information from the constable at Porangahau yes? terday that the body of a man named Henry Francis Wright, aged 32 years, was found in a dam on the Oakbourne station on Thursday. The body was fully dressed, and there was nothing to show how deceased got into the water. DEATH UNDER CHLOROFORM. Wanganui, Friday. A boy named Albert George Matthews, aged fourteen and a-half years, died at the hospital to-day under chloroform. An operation for an abscess on the back had just been completed when the boy collapsed.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 195, 26 November 1910, Page 5
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165ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 195, 26 November 1910, Page 5
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