ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
OLD LADY'S SUICIDE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Hawera, Last Night. Mary Ann Crocker, 70 years of age, wife of James Cracker, a retired farmer, was reported missing from her home at Normanby. A search made revealed the body of the old lady in a lake near her residence. Mr. Crocker is at present an inmate of a private hospital at Hawera. DOCTOR SERIOUSLY INJURED. Auckland, Last Night. Dr. Robertson, driving a motor car in a suburb, was crossing the tramline when a tramcar got into dangerous proximity. He swerved the motor, but could not avoid a collision. He was thrown out of the car and was after,wards removed to the hospital, his skulL being seriously fractured. INJURED BY DETONATORS. Whakatane, Last Night. A Maori child, while replenishing a fire on the Rangitaiki swamp, where workmen were engaged, accidentally gathered up some detonators with an armful of wood. The explosion shattered one Tiand, which was amputated at the hospital.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1919, Page 3
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160ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1919, Page 3
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