ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 223, 3 January 1911, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. By Cable —Press Association Copyright. Wei 1 i ngto n, Sat u rtlay. George Moorcroft, a tailor by trade, who, on December 20, after a drinking bout, attempted to commit, suicide, first by cutting his wrist with a knife and t'lien his throat with a razor, was before the Court to-day charged with the offence. He was convicted and ordered to pay the medical expenses incurred. OLD WOMAN BURNED TO DEATH. Dunedin, January 1. A woman named Mary Aim Heath, aged seventy-one, an old age pensioner, was burned to death about 2.20 this morning. She resided with her husband and tuo other women in a four-roomed house in Dowling street. When the fire was discovered the husband is alleged to have been more or less under the influence of liquor. The origin of the fire is a mystery. The house was partly destroyed, and the brigade found the woman's charred remains behind a bedroom docir. The husband is suffering somewhat from shock, but not seriously.

A SAD AFFAIR. Wanganni, Last Night. Rebecca Irvine, third daughter of Captain Irvine, of Castleelill', was drowned on Sunday night. She and her sister and a young man, when returning from church, went to the breakwater. The sister and the young man sat down at the top end of the breakwater, and deceased, as she had done on many occasions, intimated her intention of going to the extremity of the structure. AVhe'n the sister returned home the -house was in darkness, and it was only this morning that the discovery was made that deceased's bed had not been occupied. Her body was discovered on the beach a mile away, with a bad bruise on the back of the head. Evidently the deceased slipped oil' the footway,• and fell on to the rocks. THROWN FROM A HORSE. Invercaigill, Last Night. •Tame- Campbell, age.l j'2, a buslmian residing at Clifton, was killed by being thrown from his horse on Sunday on the road near Woodend. Deceased, who was married, leaves eleven children. PEOPLE BURNED. Wellington, This Morning. A lire occurred at the Wellesley board-ing-house in the city this morning TvjaJ people were burned to death. No JjjF thcr details are available. , ' T