ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 199, 20 February 1914, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A TRAM FATALITY'. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Wednesday, frank 15. Christie, aged 7(1, a farmer !,fl'om Wanganui, who was knocked down [ hy a tram ear in Cuba street last night and removed to the hospital, sull'eriug serious injuries to his head, died thig evening'. SUICIDE OF A XATIYK. Auckland, Last Xiglit. The inquest into the death of Toko \\ irihama, aged *2li years, a native, who was found dead in his lied yesterday morning, resulted in a verdict of ''suicide while of unsound mind," Deceased had cut his throat with a razor as a result of domestic troubles. According to the sworn evidence of his wife, WTiriliana was frequently overtaken with (its of jealousy. He had been'cruel to her on several occasions, she said, and had repeatedly told her that he intended taking his own life. lie had also threatened to buy cartridges for his revolver, and then make an end of both of them. A SUDDEN DKATII. Wellington, Last Xiglit. William Parnell dropped dead this evening in his confectionary sliop in Willis street. Heart disease was the cause of death. Deceased was about 50 years of age, and for nome time lived in (iisborne, afterwards keeping an hotel for some years in Napier, lie leaves a widow, but no family. A CHILD DROWNED. Auckland, Last Night. A gill nine years old named Dorothy ISetts, was drowned while bathing at Onehunga to-day. She got out of her depth, and disappeared in live feet of water.