ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7939, 12 January 1906, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

SCALDED TO DEATH. DUNEDIN, January 11. George Graham, aged 21 months' sou of Mr Murdoch Graham, of Mindon, died on Tuesday night from scu'ds recoived through falling into a tub of boiling water left in the kitchen. A BUSHMAN'S DEATH. DANNEVIRKE, Jan 11. On Tuesday afternoon, at Tiratu, a tmshtiian named Mields Olsen, married, received severe injuries in the chest through a branch of a tree falling on hira. The case was hopeless from the first, and Olsen died yesterday. A TRAGIC MISHAP. PALMERSTON N., Jan. 11. Jolin Jarmey,, aged 24, met his death under tragic circumstances tonight. He was a farm hand at Mr Ch»nnery Brown's, and after tea was "larking" with a servant girl named Ethel Linton in the kitchen. He offered to kiss her, and she playfully exclaimed that she would shoot bim. At the same time she picked up a pea rifle lying behind the door and pointed it at his bead. The next moment Jarmey was writhing on the floor in mortal agony, the bullet having entered his eye and pierced his brain. Jarmey was an Englishman. He had served in the Boer war with the Norfolk Regiment, and was the possesbor of several ajedals, The girl is completely prostrated.