ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.
ELDERLY MAN’S SUICIDE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. The body of a retired railway servant, Mr Alfred Derbridge, aged 72 years, was found on the hillside a mile from his home with a wound in the throat. At the inquest the coroner returned a verdict that Derbridge committed suicide while of unsound mind. SUDDEN DEATHS. AUCKLAND, Wednesday. While grubbing grass yesterday afternoon an elderly man, Mr John William Dean, of .Mount Edpn, collapsed and died immediately. A widower, Mr J. A. Hollands, aged 69, who was discharged from the Waikato Hospital about three weeks ago, was found dead in bed at a boardinghouse in Nelson Street early yesterday morning. No inquest will be held.
YOUNG MAN BADLY BURNED. AUCKLAND, Wednesday. Extensive hums were received by John Stanley Lalto, aged IS, when engaged in melting glue at the paint, factory of Phillipps and Jmpey, Limited. Newmarket. With ids clothes on fire Latto rushed from the building and rolled in the grass outside in an effort to extinguish the flames, hut it. was not until he had been wrapped in blankets hv other workmen that this was accomplished.
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Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17979, 26 March 1930, Page 5
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188ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES. Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17979, 26 March 1930, Page 5
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