ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
A SAD OCCURRENCE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night. A distressing burning accident, whereby Mrs. Pennycook, wife of Captain Pennycook, proprietor of the Clutha Leader, lost her life, occurred at Balclutha early this morning. She had been suffering from influenza and erysipelas, and was under medical treatment. Early , this morning she left her bed and stood be9ide the Are. By some means her nightdress caught fire. Her screams awakened a son and daughter, who extinguished the flames, but the shock to the system was so severe that death occurred about mid-day. Captain Pennycook is on hia way to the Dardanelles in charge of the Otago detachment of the Sixth Reinforcements. Deceased, who leaves four sons and two daughters, was about 30 years of ago, and was a daughter of Mr. Graham, formerly stationmaater at Timaru. FATAL CYCLE ACCIDENT. Christchurch, Last Night.
Arthur Charles Nottingham, aged 17 years, while cycling to his home at Halswell this evening, collided with a tramear, and had liis skull, jaw, and an arm and a leg fractured. He was dead when picked up. (
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 September 1915, Page 5
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