ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 January 1920, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

FATAL PEA RIFLE ACCIDENT. By Telegraph.—Fres? Association. Wellington, Jan. 26. A sad shooting fatality is reported from Eldertown, near Upper Hutt, as the result of which a three-year-old child, Priseilla Southey, was shot dead with a pea rifle by a little playmate. Particulars are not available, but it appears that a party of little ones who were playing together somehow got possession of the firearm, with the result chronicled.

A MAN DROWNED. Auckland, Jan- 28. Alfred Charles AsplanJ. aged 48, was drowned while bathing at St. Hellier's Bay lesterday in thvee feet of water with his son. The boy noticed his father floating on the surface and struggled ashore with him, but efforts to revive him failed.

DROWNED IN A RIVER Hawera, Jan, 26. Alois Herman Parmer was crossing the Kapuni River, on Saturday afternoon, to help a neighbor bring eome cows across the ford, when he was washed off his horse and drowned. The body was recovered yesterday about a mile from the place where the accident occurred. Deceised, whose wife died two months ago, leaves five little children.

BOY'S fal£ from a train. Christchurrch, Jan. 26. Albert Patterson, aged 16. while returning to Lyttelton on Saturday evening, fell from the train in the* tunnel about a hundred yards from the tyttelton end, and had a miraculous escape from being cut to pieces. He was found by the ganger who was making an inspection of the tunnel on Sunday morning, having lain in the meantime m an unconscious state alongside the line, over which many trains had pawed after he fell Patterson was removed fl^YT* w " d at L y«*elten. and found to be suffering, from a deep wound on the forehead and two others at the base of the skull. His condition is »•' garded as serious.