ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 67, 6 August 1912, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A SAD CASE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Napier, Last Niglit. An inquest was held to-day on Peter Petersen, aged 34, married, whose body was found on Sunday in a waterhole at Meanee. The evidence showed that deceased had been worrying because a section occupied by •him had been sold and he was unable to obtain a renewal of his lease. A verdict of suicide by drowning white in a depressed- mental state was returned. Deceased leaves a wife and five children.

A YOUTH'S DEATH. Gore, Last Night. At the inquest this afternoon as- to the death of David William Hunter, aged 19, -whose body was found on the Croydon road on Friday afternoon with a pea rifle bullet -wound in his head, evidence was given that deceased was and fairly well ofT. A verdict was returned that death was due to a bullet wound in the head, there being ino evidence as to how it was inflicted.

YOUNG MAN'S FATAL FALL. Hamilton, Last Night. Late this afternoon an accident occurred at the water tower 'which the Hamilton Town Board is erecting on the Fran'kton Hill, when a young .man named Neil Kennedy fell from the scaffolding, a distance of some CO or 70 feet. An. ambulance was at once sent to convey the injured man to the Hamilton Hospital. He died shortly afterwards.

TIMARU BURNING t-'ATALTTY. Timaru, Last Night. At the inquest on Ivor Allen Wilson, insurance .canvasser, burned to death in liis house 011 Friday evening bv upsetting a kerosene lamp, evidence was given that he bad been subject to _ fits, and the nature of the burns indicated that he was in a lit at the time.

; LITTLE BOY KILLED. j Asliiburton. Last Night. A nine-year-old boy named Edgar J Healy was fatally injured by the first express for Christchureh this afternoon. It is surmised he was struck by the engine. A POISONING CASE. | 'Wellington, Monday. j Mary Brcsnan, aged 40. a. single i woman, yesterday swallowed colchicine ] salicylate tabloids in mistake for lollies, land died an • hour after her admission to the hospital. 1 DROWNING ACCIDENT. Wellington, Monday, ' The police received word yesterday • that Joseph Wind-ley, aged forty, was I drowned in the Porirua stream yesterday. DIED AFTER BOXING. j Greymonth, Monday, j A sudden death -occurred yesterday, j Several young men were training for Wit' I boxing tjourmunent, and one of them, | William Furncss, aged 18, after a prelilimiTiary spar, complained - of being tired, •j and died in a few minutes. J A RIVER FATALITY.

Whangarei, Monday. | A bus-hman known as "Jack the Aus- | tralian," 20 years of age, when attempt- ) ing to ride across a -ford in the Manga - kahia river yesterday afternoon, was swept out of his saddle and drowned. Ilis bodv has not been recovered.

! DEATH PROM HEART DISEASE. ! Wellington. Monday. I George Coker, a painter, residing at Petone, died .suddenly at noon to-day. J Death was due to heart disease. There will not be an inquest, A VETERAN'S DEATH. I WoodviMe, Monday,

Joseph Drink-water, a wrv oi<l resident oi Woodville, died with painful suddenness on Saturday evening. lie had been working all Saturday <ind waa in Iris usual state of health. After supper at 9 he retired and 15 minutes Inter gave a gasp and was dead. No inquest will be held, as the doctor has certified that death was due to heart disease. The deceased was 7-1 years of aj»e. and was one of the original Woodville small farm settlers, coming to the district 'ls years ago.