ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
YOUNG MAN'S SUDDEN DEATH. Pahiatua, Sept. 25. Robert David Monk, aged eighteen years, a strapping young fellow employed by 6. H, Cornelius, farmer, of Mangahao, was found dead in a whare this morning, lying with his face in the fireplace. He appeared all right when last seen last night. He had complained lately of giddiness. There was no sign of a struggle. There were indications that Monk had been repairing an acetylene bicycle lamp. He is believed to have relatives at Ashhurst. A post-mortem will be held. At the inquest a verdict of death from suffocation, as the result of a fit, was returned. The doctor stated that *ll deceased's organs were sound and healthy.
SUICIDE BY POISON. Auckland, Sept. 25. Thomas Owens, a single man, a native of Tasmania, a labourer, committed suicide by poison at Groves' boarding-houße at Kawhia* He wrote on the lookingglass with shaving soap: "Good-bye. I suffered from insomnia." maFdrowjed. Auckland, Last Night. A married man named Thomas Haworth fell overboard from a launch in the harbor yesterday, and was drowned. An attetupt to rescue him foiled. \
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1915, Page 8
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