ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 33, 2 August 1911, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

SUICIDE BY INHALING GAS. By Telegraph—Preeß Association. Auckland, Tuesday. Mrs. Mary Nelson, a widow, aged 45, a resident of Mount Eoskill, committed suicide by inhaling gas fumes. Her nephew found her covered with a rug, with her head on a pillow on the floor of the kitchen, there being evidences thai she had used the gas tubing is ait agency for self-destruction and the rug to confine the fumes while she inhaled them. She had' been in ill-health for some time. OLD MAN'S SUICIDE. Wellington, Tuesday. At half-past four thifl morning a welldressed elderly man was found' in Edinburgh Terrace, Newton, with a terrible gash in his throat. He died twenty minutes later. A sharp bladed pocket knife, bloodstained, was picked up a few yards away. A quarter of an hour before he was found in extremis he accosted a man in the street and then appeared strange In manner. The body ha® been intentified as that of John Lawrence, an ex-employee at the telegraph office. DEATH FROM BURNS. Auckland, Tuesday. The four-year-old son of Thomas Hay, of Richmond road, Mount Albert, died in the hospital as a result of burns. The 1 toy's mother found him enveloped in flames, his clothes having evidently caught fire while she was outside the house. She took prompt measures to extinguish the flames, but the burns were so severe that nothing could avert a fata] result. DISCOVERED BY MAORIS. Wairoa, Monday. News was received tiliis morning that the two men, Higgins and Baker, who attempted to cross the Waikaremoana on a raft last week, were discovered by Maoris and were in a feeble condition. They were taken ashore to a pah and cared for. But for this timely discovery they must have died. The weather was -bitterly cold on the lake.