ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 138, 2 December 1911, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

| A BODY FOUND. By Telegraph—Press Association. Pa.lmerston N., Friday. The body of a man was found in the Manawatu river near Foxton heads this morning. There is no clue to (its identity. It has apparently been in the river for a fortnight. Deceased was between 35 and 40 years old and sft 9in in height. BENCH SAWYER KILLED. Blenheim, Last Night. [Frederick Johnston, an unmarriul man aged 25, was killed at Nydia Bay to-day by a log rolling off the breaking down bench at which he was working. Deceased, who was employed 1 by the Marlborough Timber Co., was a native of 1 Whangapoua, near Auckland. FATALLY DRAGGED BY A HORSE. - < Napier, Last Night. An accident, attended with fatal results, occurred to a well known resident of dive named .James Burt on Thursday. It appears that he went into a paddock to catch his horse, which was rather difficult to deal with. He had got a ] rope round the horse's neck, when it ma<le a plunge, and Burt somehow got entangled in the rope, and was dragged i round the paddock at a furious pace. When rescued he was unconscious, and was removed to the Napier hospital, where he died to-dav.