ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 272, 24 April 1914, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A BABY DROWNED.

By Telegraph—Press Association. Wanganui, Wednesday,

A child named Alice Jp»>c Phillips, aged a year and nine months, while playing' in a back yard to-day, fell into a tub of water and was drowned.

A MYSTERIOUS DEATH.

Dunedin, Yesterday. At the adjourned inquest into the circumstances surrounding the death of Samuel Skierra Horace Kirk, land agent. 37 years, who was found dead m bed on the morning of the 12th inst., the report of the public analyst was to the effect that his examination d solosed no evidence of organic or morgan.; 1 poison. Dr. Church sa.iu he was forced to the conclusion that the cause of death must have been angina pectoris. He had been informed deceased had consulted a medical man at Dipton for heart trouble. The coroner returned a verdict in accordance with the medical finding, and mentioned that there had been no suspicion about the case at all.

MISSINO.

Dunedin, Yesterday

It is feared that a young man named George E. Partridge 'has been drowned near Cromwell. He. was the owner of a motor lorry and was engaged in carrying produce. The indications suggest that Partridge went to the bank of the Upper Clutha River to obtain water for the engine, and in the narkness fell in and was drowned. The river at the spot was deep and swift.

rUBUC vvORKS CI JERK KILIAD.

Gisoorne, \estesday.

Edwin Whaite, aged 00, clerk in the Public. Works Department at Rakauroa, who was travelling from Rakauroa to Otoko on a jigger, was run over by a railway engine and killed. He was a widower with seven children.

SUDDEN DEATH,

Dunedin, Last Night,

The Superintendent of Police has been advised from Owaka that Henry Croft, 05 years of age, died suddenly at Longbeach Ohaslands, this morning. He has not been attended by a doctor.