ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 October 1922, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

FOUND DEAD IN BED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Gisborne, Last Night. A man named Wm. George Morgan, 66 years of age, was found dead in his house in bed. He resided alone. Death apparently occurred two or three days previously. There are no suspicious circumstances. OLD MAN’S SUICIDE. Whangarei, Oct. 16. Alexander Bell, aged 82, formerly a master mariner, and an inmate of the Old People’s Home, was found dead under a bridge on the Otaika Road yesterday afternoon, with his face blown away. He had improvised the gun with which he committed suicide from a piece of lead piping charged with powder, and fired from a touch hole. A letter was found in his pocket addressed to the police sergeant, intimating his intention. He had suffered from an incurable disease for many years. A WOMAN’S DEATH. Dunedin, Oct. 16. The body of Elizabeth Bressnell was found under a railway bridge about a mile From her home at Riverside, near Outram. The deceased was the wife of William Charles Bressnell, a carrier, and the mother of eight children, the oldest 11 years of age. FATAL MOTOR ACCIDENT. Oamaru, Oct. 16. Allan Carmichael, aged 18, was killed at Hampden as the result of a collision between a motor-cycle ridden by deceased and a motor-car. SERIOUS GUN ACCIDENT. Ashburton, Oct. 16. A serious shooting accident took place at Lismore on Sunday. John Percy Ashton, a single man of 21, was showing a seven-year-old lad named Geoffrey Sergent how to hold a shotgun. The weapon was loaded, and when being lifted by the boy ’ into position, was discharged, the shot en- 1 taring Ashton’s throat. His condition is very critical.