ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 173, 21 January 1914, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

DROWNED. ''' s '<s| By Telegraph,—Press Association. ; us Dnrgaville, January 20. "'IS A lad named Albert Wyatt,.aged ' lg9 eight years, whilst playing on tlie wharf *sj last evening, fell over and was drowned. ■> 'SI In fulling he struck lu« head- and nevejr "" rose again. The body lias not been ■ recovered. 'O.H Hamilton, January 20. 'jm May Yates, aged 10, was drowned Jn J 3| the Waikato river at Hamilton, whila' ■ J-M FOUND DEAD IN' BED. ". 'M Auckland, January CO. '-2 M ArUmr Strothcv Jackson, aged 6ft Jm years, was found dead in bed liy'hiß ;*3%m wife. lie was apparently in good "^"flM hcaltli when ho retired. .. lS M WOMAN SERIOUSLY BURNED. ' '.'.'fl Duncdin, Last Night * i<\jßJ Mrs. Christina Murray, n woman of i|3 33 or 34 years of age, who was on a ' ffiJß visit to her mother, Mrs. Murphy, of ,tj*j| Lcilli street, was admitted early thll : 3S morning' to the hospital suffering from sji severe burns. It appears that she had '*d been reading in bed, with a candle 'b*« ,3 side her, and that she dropped off to jj sleep. The bedclothes caught lire, and •■ 8 the household was awakened by the ( Jk cries of Mrs. Murray's little daughter, ' who was sleeping in the same bed. In- '% quiry tliis oveuing elicited the inform- . ■s• ■vtion that Mrs. Mnrrny'ti condition was ." | serious. "' J? RAILWAY DEATH TRAPS. ."< ■ ' ;f | Wnnganni, Last Night. } A married man named Thomas Glee- ?> ■son, aged 37, employed by the Borough., Council, was killed at the Harrison vf§ street level crossing this evening. Glee- • '- «| sou was driving 1 a dray across thoa \M line when an engine coming from Ara- Jl niolio smashed the vehicle. The unfortunatc man's neck was broken, but his '',|| body was thrown vicar and imt mutil- *■*]& ' j. J INQUEST. : J ?Jj Duncdin, 1.-ist Night, An inquest was held this meniug on the body of Thomas Lowe, who wan drowned* while surf bathing at St. Kilda bench on Sunday afternoon. Afler hear- v * H *j| iiig tlio evidence of Joseph Periria, who. 'ja made a good attempt to rescue the do-- 38 ceased, the coroner returned a verdict ■. .||| of accidental 'drowning. .''^