ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 142, 2 November 1912, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

SUICIDE OF A BOXER,

By Telegraph—Press Association;

Timaru, Last Night. John J. Gunn, the young bantam boxer who was one of the New Zealand team to visit the Australasian championship meeting, committed suicide to-day. He was found floating In the harbor, and died after being got out. He had a bottle of rat poison ni his pocket, half emptied. He is t-n'ul to have been depressed bv adverse awards in recent contests.

A SUDDEN DEATH.

Timaru, Last Night. A young man naiiied P. J. Collins, employed at a steam laundry, fell backwards while carrying clothes on October 3, and hurt his head. He was in the hospital till October 20, and when he returned home still complained of a pain in his head. Yesterday morning he died unexpectedly.

A CHILD'S DEATH.

Dannevirke, Last Night.

An inquest was held to-day on Charlotte Lena Anderson, a two-year-old infant killed by a fall from a horse at Tamaki yesterday. The jury found that death was accidental, no blame being attached to anybody, and added a rider drawing attention to the danger of carrying infants on horseback.

A PEULIAR ACCIDENT.

Invercargill, Last Night.

A peculiar accident happend at an parly hour this morning, when Mr. Thos. R. Christie, of the firm of Christie Bros., Dunedin, fell from a bedroom window into the yard below, a distance of Hi feet. Christie was on a visit to Invercargill in connection with the sitting of tfhe Conciliation Court in the plumbers' dispute. Shortly before 5 o'clock this morning he was found lying in the yard, by the hotel porter, being unconscious. He regained consciousness and was taken to the hospital. His left arm is fractured above the wrist, while he is severely bruised and shaken. It is believed that the accident was the result of the victim's walking in his sleep.