ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 1, 2 June 1913, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A PECULIAR DEATH. Per Press Association. ; Auckland, Saturday. Antliony Harwood, aged 27, boarding in Alten Road, was found dead in his> bedroom with his neck broken. Evidence was given at the inquest that the body was found, on the floor in a peculiarly contracted kneeling position, with; the head bent right under it A * A post mortem examination showed that the organs were all healthy, but the neck was dislocated. The face was blue. Apparently Harwood slipped wntagetting up in tjbe night and fell with his, head right under him. The-'jury returned ft verdict of accidental deati. A FATAL FALL. w : ' Auckland, Saturday. Frank Evans, formerly working on. the steamer Victoria, felL'&tan some steps when leaving a restaurant four days ago, and died in the hospital today.

THROWN FROM A GIG. Dunedin, Last Night \ The police have been advised that \ Elizabeth Bates,, aged-57, a widow, vra» killed on Friday evening at*Kurow by' being thrown out of a gig, the result of the horse bolting. SUICIDE BY SHOOTING. Christchiirch, last Night An inquest concerning the death or Thomas Barson, of Hororata. which wcurrcd on Thursday, was held last night. Mary Barson deposed that she heard a conversation between deceased and her sister. Her father said, "It is' all up with me now/' Presently her father went into the room where the guns were kept, and though she heard him handling them she paid no attention to the incident. Later she heard the discharge of a gun, and saw that her father had shot himself. The coroner returned a verdict that death was caused by a gunshot woiyid, self-inflicted. FALL DOWN SHIP'S HOLD. Invercargill, Last Night. Two watersideis, A. F. Darwell and G. Browning, fell down the hold of the steamer Surrev on Saturday, and wero admitted to the hospital. Darwell was badly bruised, and Browning's ankle was injured, but neither was seriously hurt. *