ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 221, 30 December 1910, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

FELL OVER A BANK. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Tim<iru, Thursday. At the inquest on M. Clifford, who fell over an embankment on December 8, the evidence showed that deceased sustained a broken jaw, four broken iribs, a -broken collar-bone, two scalp wounds, a fractured collar-bone, a punctured lurig, and that death was due to septic-pneumonia. The accident is supposed to have happened at 11 p.m.,, when Clifford was not sober.

A WOODVILLE CASE. Woodville, Thursday. A man named Clemisha, a foreigner and a stranger to the town, was discovered lying very ill in Ormond street yesterday afternoon. He was taken to the police station and received medical attendance, but he died an hour later. An inquest will be held. FALL OVER A CLIFF. Christchurch, Thursday. Two boys fell over a cliff at Monks Bay, Sumner, this morning. The victims were two boys named Rawlins, one six, the other nine years of age. The younger brother slipped on the hill-side, and the elder tried to catch him, and both fell forty or fifty feet. The younger boy appears severely injured, but the elder escaped with a scalp wound and scratches.

SHOT HER HUSBAND. Masterton, Last Night. It is reported that in a fit of dementia a young woman named Donovan, the wife of a settler at Kopuaranga, near Masterton, seized a pea-rifle yesterday, and shot her husband in the head. The wound is not serious. The woman this afternoon was committed to a mental hospital.