ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 220, 24 February 1915, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

AFTERMATH OF "A SUICIDE. By Telegraph— Per Press Association, fiisborne, February 22. At an early hour last Thursday morning a middle-aged man, named Thomas Wallace, was fouiul dead with his throat cut in the house of Samuel English, a laborer, living in Delatour Road, Kaiti. At the inquest it was stated that the deceased had been drinking, but after a long and exhaustive enquiry the coroner was unable to (hid evidence to show how the deceased came by the wound in li s throat, and returned an osien verdict.This was 011 Friday last. On Sunday morning English. on visiting the scene of the tragedy, found ft calendar for 1915 lying on the grass outside the back door. On the back of it was an unsigned message in pencil, supposed to have been written by the deceased, and pointing to, it is thought, intentions of suicide. Counsel for English has now approached the Minister for Internal Allaire, requesting permission to have this and other evidence heard, and the inquest re-opened. AN OLD MAN DROWNED. Westporfc, February 23. At the inquest on Solomon TSlore, who has been missing from the Old People's ITome since "lie 2nd inst., a verdict of accideutally drowned in a creelc was returned. The old man wandered off the road into the bush, and apparently lay down to rest and rolled, into a creek. His bat and coat were found on the bank.