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ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

THE INJURED FIREMAN. By Telegraph—Press Association. Timaru, Last Night. Lyons, the fireman who fell oil the train and through the Otaio bridge, still lies in a precarious condition at the hospital.

A SUICIDE. Masterton, Last Night. Robert Dickson, a settler, of Maurieeville, was found dead in a whare yesterday with a wound in the breast and « shotgun by his side. Deceased, who was a single man between fifty and sixty years of age, had evidently been dead for several days. At the inquest to-day a verdict of suicide while temporarily insane was returned by the District Coroner.

FOUND DROWNED. Nelson, Last Night. The body of a seaman named [Caspar Anderson was found floating in the harbor this afternoon. Deceased was a member of the crew of the scow Southern Isles, and had been missing for some days. He was a native of Norway, and about thirty years of age.

DROWNED WHILST BATHING

Hastings, Last Night. The body of John Cooper, aged 25, unmarried, drowned whilst bathing in the Tukituki River, near Clive Grange, on Sunday afternoon, was recovered today. Cooper was unable to swim. He entered the river with wings where the water was fourteen feet deep. The wings got adrift and Cooper sank.

THE INEVITABLE PEA-RIFLE. Invercargill, Monday. A youth named Sydney Glover, of Taramoa, left a' loaded pea.-rifle in a barn and, while closing the door, the charge exploded and the bullet, of the expanding type, passed through Glover's abdomeiiaud lodged in his liver. His condition is dangerous. A CASE OF INFANTICIDE. Dunedin, Monday. An inquest was held this morning on the infant's remains deposited on the reclaimed land by the suction dredge on December 2. The body showed, according to medical evidence, that the child was .fully developed' and had been born alive,, mid had mot its death by violence. The coroner, Mr. Graham, returned a verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown, and instructed the police to make inquiries. Tt appears that' the child was born about ten weeks ago, and that the mother was a fully developed woman. SHOT WHILE PTG-HUNTIXG.

Christchurcli, Last Night. Yesterday three youths, named Moses Pawelka (aged 10). his brother Michael (two years younger), and William Fix (aged about seventeen) went pig-shoot-ing on the hills at the back of the White Rock statkui. About 3.45 the younger brother rode into one of the farm dwellings higher up the valley and told them that Moses had been shot in the groin on one of the spurs of Tapley range. Mr. C. 11. Ensor at once sent his motor-ear down to North Loburn to telephone to Rangiora for a doctor, and rode up himself with four mounted shepherds to where the man lay. The journey was about ten miles through very rough and broken country, and the unfortunate man had died about a quarter of an hour before the helpers reached him. Dr. Burnett had been reached by the telephone, and was as far as his motor-car could take him before six o'clock. There horses were waiting for him. Father Hyland, of Rangiora, was only a little while behind him. Partio lars of the, accident are meagre, but •': seems that the deceased fired at a pig, wounding it, and stepped aside for Fix to take a shot. As he was about to fire, Fix slipped, and the charge lodged in deceased's back, rather above the right hip. On seeing deceased and the country where he was the doctor said that had Pawelka been alive it would not hare been possible to move him, and they could only have put him under canvas there.

A CURIOUS ACCIDENT. Christehurch, Last Night. A child of Helling, caretaker of the Shirley golf links, was to-day peeling the rubber from the outer case of a golf ball, and got down to. the centre, when it burst, and discharged some white semi-solid substance into the right eye, destroying the sight.

A SUDDEN DEATH. Masterton, Last Night. Mr. Richmond Bectham, formerly stipendiary magistrate at ~S :■;/■'.■'■:, Tiniaru and Christehurch. died s^Vi:';; 1 to-night from heart failure at the a, : , jf 7G. Ho had been fishing all day. h:;-:* was walking into the garden wita .vlr. William Beetham, his brother, wlic-i: no suddenly fell back and expired without uttering a word.

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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 174, 10 December 1912, Page 5

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ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 174, 10 December 1912, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 174, 10 December 1912, Page 5

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