ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 December 1922, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

INFANT’S BODY FOUND. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, December 1S» The decomposed body of an intant a few weeks old was found buried in ‘.he sandhills at Lyall Bay. YOUNG MAN DROWNED. Foxton, December 18. While bathing at the seaside yesterday morning Ronald William Kilpatrick, IS years, whose parents reside at Palmerston, was drowned. He was with a companion and suddenly disappeared. The body has not been recovered. It is surmised that it has been carried out to sea. RETURNED SOLDIER ELECTROCUTED. Auckland, December 18. Frank Webb, aged 33, a returned soldier, was electrocuted at Te Aroha whilst repairing a breakdown. He accidently touched a Jive wire. CHILD KILLED BY FALL. Palmerston N., December IS. As the result of a fall from a motorlorry on the Longburn-Rongotea Road yesterday, Rona Bovis, eight years old, whose parents reside at Longburn, sustained fatal injuries. SUICIDE BY SHOOTING. •Christchurch, December IS. George James Virtue, aged 49, died in hospital from a self-inflicted revolver wound in the right temple. Virtue, who lived at Woolston and leaves a wife and young family, had recently been in hospital five weeks. He shot himself at 9 a.m. and died at 11 a.m. AFTERMATH OF DIPTHERIA. Christchurch, December IS. Thelma Edwards, aged 10, died on the way to the hospital as the result of the blocking of an artificial opening in the windpipe necessitated fouj years ago by a severe attack of diphtheria. CHILD’S BODY FOUND. Wellington, December 19. At the inquest on the bodv of a child

found buried in the sand nt Lyall Bay, Dr. Hector, who made a post-mortem examination, stated that it was the body of a female child apparently newly born. It bore no marks of injury or disease. In his opinion it had been buried about a fortnight.