ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 269, 14 April 1914, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A BODY FOUND. By Telegraph—Press Association. Thames, Saturday. The body of Charles Bush, a.JUUerman, who was drowued in the Ihanies river vesterday, was found near where the fatality occurred.

KILLED BY A CRUSHER. Whangarci, Saturday. •V vouug mau named Assley Crawioid, a.rod 23, son of a settler in the Mangakaramea district, was fatally injured while working at a stone crusher at Moewliare on Thursday afternoon. Deceased was found lying on the ground in a dving condition with terrible injuries to'his head. It is surmised that lie [was caught in the belting of the crusher and dragged into the machinery.

KILLED WHILST SHOOTING. Auckland, Last Night. The Auckland police have received information that a man named Mawson was accidentally shot at Patumahoc on Saturday. He got separated from his fellow shootists, who later found him ! entangled in a wire fence with his head .partly blown off and a discharged gun idying beside him. DU&EDIN'S LIST. Duncdin, Last Night. A married man named George Henry Delvin, a painter, aged 32 years, residing in Muitland street, Duncdin, died suddenly about 8 p.m. on Saturday. Horace Kirkland, 27 years of age, a mining student, was found dead in bed at his mother's residence at District -Road, P.oslyn, this morning. A married man named John Callon, aged 30 years, left his home in Richardson street at 8.4.5 a.m. yesterday to go to the Northern cemetery to fix up his ohild's grave. He promised to return before dinner, but has not come back yet.