ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXIV, Issue 25, 19 April 1912, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

[Press Association.] HAWERA, This Day. Alice Norton, single (20) committed suicide at her brother's residence yesterday, by hanging. Deceased left a note to the effect that she would be found in the grape house,- where her body was discovered, in the evening, suspended from a beam. Deceased was the daughter of Mr. Norton, Assistant Inspector of Post Offices. FEILDING, This Day. Walter Viles (11) was riding to school at >Yaiata this morning on a. broken-down racehorse, which lie had not ridden before. The horse bolted, stumbled, and threw the boy, whose foot was held by the stirrup. He was dragged 400 yards, and,'when lie was picked mp his head was found to be smashed to a pulp. The boy immediately expired. His sister witnessed the whole occurrence.