ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 225, 11 February 1913, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

ACCIDENTALLY DROWNED. Per Press Association. Napier, Monday. Andrew Johnson, aged 70, who was found drowned in the harbor on Satur--3 (lav evening, left the Union Hotel half ! an hour earlier, and was seen to go in the direction of the Eastern Pier. " AI ' the inquest deceased's wife gave evidence ! ' that Jolhimci had been drinking heavily 3 of late. The coroner retuimd a verdict 7 that deceased iiad lieen accidentally drowned while intoxicated. 1 DROWNED IN ],AKK KOTOHCA. Rotorua, Monday. Solomon Newton. aged .">O, a native was drowned in a lake through falling oil* a fishing launch yesterday evening. Newton made the trip to America with the .Native troupe. A FATA). (irxsilOT. Thames, Monday. Aloxarxlor ."Dutiioji, ;i;((n| stm of <1 j well-known resident, of l'ara,wai. died from injuries received iVoni ..iinsho!; wound in tlie stomach last night. Deceased was in his bedroom when a shot was heard. 'When relatives entered thev found Duulop in a d villi; condition Tie expired shortly after. A MO TOP ACCIDENT. Auckland. Mon-hiv. A man named Arnoldson. of Auckland and his family were motoring between Taupo and Wairekei- when the ear sledded and capsized over a bank. Arnoldson'< yonn;;est (buigh'cr fell under (!k> car. receiving t'jither serious injuries to the head. She was cornered In the Lake Tanpo Hotel and medically attended. A SWT) FATALITY. Thames. Last Night. A sad fatality occurred at ParaM'ai/ near Thames, last night. b.v which Alex> under Unnlop. son of a well-known resident. received wounds from accidental shooting, which resulted in death soon after. Dunlop. who was aged 24. was in his bedroom cleaning his gun, and it is presumed that after cleaning and loading it he was in the act, of putting it away when it, caught a box. the contents hei tig discharged. Dunlop received a .fearful wound in the abdomen, and medical assistance was called, but the man was dead heiore the doctor arrived. At the inquest a verdict of accidental death was retutned.