ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 173, 9 December 1912, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

A SHOOTING FATALITY.

By Telegraph—Press Association. Cambridge, Last Night.

A party of four young men went out from Cambridge driving this morning in the direction of Matamata, taking with them a Winchester rifle to shoot rabbits, and whilst stopping by the roadside for lunch one of the party, named William Boath, aged 26, a native of Dundee, Scotland, employed at Cambridge as a journeyman tailor, went to the conveyance to get the gun, which suddenly went oil', and the bullet passed through Boath's throat, severing the jugular vein. He died in a few minutes. Boath had recently been using the gun, and presumably had left it in the vehicle loaded and cocked. The body was taken into Cambridge. An inquest will be held to-morrow.

TRAP ACCIDENT AT ELTIIAM. v Eltham, Saturday. A horse ran away this morning with a trap containing three small children named Taylor, of Mangamingi. The vehicle collided with a telegraph post, the horse being lamed, the trap smashed and the children seriously injured.

A FRACTURED SKULL.

Wellington, Saturday

At the inquest on John Thomas Hoskins, Public Health Inspector, who died yesterday, a verdict was returned that deceased met his death through fracture of the skull, evidently sustained through accidentally falling down the hold of tiie steamer lonic. A FATAL FALL. Gisbome, Saturday. A message from Tokomaru Ray states that Frank Warbrick, of Port Awanui, while loading wool to-day fell from the wharf and was killed. Warbrick (whose relatives reside in Auckland) was the manager of the Waiapu Farmers' Cooperative Company. While checking wool at Port Awanui this morning, he fell backwards from the wharf into a surf boat. He died when being conveyed to Waipiro Bay. He was a young man, and was to have been married at Christmas.