ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 292, 19 May 1915, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

DEATH 11V DROWXIXG. By Ti logranh.—Press Association. Auckland, May IS. At the adjourned inquest concernbig Urn death of William A. Clav, found drowned in the llikufaia Creek with a rope round his neck and a stone attached, (lie coroner said that, after hearing the <\iilence, he felt sure that there had bum no foul plav. lie according!v entered a verdict of suicide.

;.\' iiLH MAX'S DEATH. | Carterton, May IM. At the inquest ut Fcaiherson yestcrdiv on the body of n man found on tlie pivperl.y of .J. \V. Follinghar.i, a verd'et was n-'iiirncd that death was due io piK■umunia. and exposure. 'J'lie identity of the pen is stiil unknown, lie was an old man, agftd about 05. BURNT TO MATH. Tnvcrcargill. May IS. A farm hand named Duncan Matle''- -,-.;: v...i burnt to death in n hut at Druiamnnd this morning. He loaves a v.iiluw and four children. electrocuted. Christchureh, Last Night. E.iriy this afternoon two aerial linesmen Le'onging to the City Council elecLii'.eal department, while •working' (J\ overhead wires in Malcolm Avenue, Fisher! <,v,, .'ccoivcd tlie full force of the current, the result being that one of (hem, F Williams, was killed outright, and the other man. Frank Donnelly, was injured. The accident was due to a short circuit caused by a wot ladder, then being moved by the two men, coming in contact with the Lake Coleridge high-tension wire. The ladder, a wooden one, had become, very wet by rain, and so acted as a conductor of the cur- ■ lit. T'ne top end touched the live high-tension wire, and the current ran down tiie ladder and electrocuted Williams instantly. Donnelly's injuries were not very serious.