ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER'S DEATH. Bj Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Dec. 8. Mr. Wpodruff, commercial traveller, from Whakata.ne, left the Waverley Hotel at one o'clockk in the morning anil a few minutes later was seen falling from a balcony on the" third floor of, Endean's buildings to the pavement below, a distance of 50 or 60 feet. He was breathing when picked up, but expired almost immediately. A CASE OF DROWNING. Napier, Dec. 8. Fitz Nielson, mill hand, wa? drowned in the Mohaka River at Puketitiri yesterday while bathing with a companion. The latter went away for a short while, and when he returned found Nielson unconscious in the water. Artificial respiration was unsuccessfully tried. Nielson was a married man with throe children. BETURNED SOLDIER'S DEATH. Wellington, Last Night. An inquest was held to-day on Frederick Deavenport Patterson, a discharged soldier, who was admitted to the Featherston military hospital on Nov. 24, and who threw himsMf under the wheels of a motor lorry on December 4, succumbing shortly after. A verdict was returned that deceased committed suicide while in a melancholy state of mind.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19191209.2.45
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, 9 December 1919, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
184ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Taranaki Daily News, 9 December 1919, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in