ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 22, 20 July 1911, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

OLD LADY FATALLY BURNED. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Wednesday. Catherine Lundy, a widow, 80 years of age, who was living with an unmarried daughter in rooms in Drununond street, was found lying dead on the fender in front of the fire yesterday afternoon. Her clothing was smouldering, and her back terribly burned. Her daughter was away at work, and the discovery was made when the landlady went into the room to place coal on the fire.

A DUNEDIN MYSTERY. Dunedin, Last Nigililt. All that is definitely known of the man who died on Monday evening in a lodging-house in King street is the fact that be gave the name of Jackson. It was revealed in post mortem that both his lungs were adherent to the walls of chest and studded with tubercle. His identity and his history during even the past few years remain shrouded in mystery that is not dispelled, but rather deepened by the few meagre statements he made to his landlord during bis occupancy of a room in the lodging-house, which he took possession of on May 17. The corpse was photographed at the morgue for the purposes of further investigation. In the meantime, lacking evidence of identification, Mr. Graham (coroner) found at the inquest to-day that dea/fch was due to general exhaustion, the result of tubercle.

A MAN MISSING. Wanga/nui, Last Night. A young man, Walter Hartcher, aged 23 or 24, disappeared from his home early this morning. His hat was found on the river bank. He was last seen at 11 o'clock on' the previous evening, when he went to bed. The missing man had not been well lately. His sister resides here, but the family is said to reside in Nelson and other relations in Sydney.