ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 191, 7 May 1908, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

CHILD SEVERELY INJURED. (by telegraphpress association.) , OunctSin, May 6. Claude M'Kowen, four years old, while running across the tram line at Caversham, was knocked down by •an approaching car and severely injured. His thigh and . ono leg was broken, and'ho received sevoro scalp wounds.. SUPPOSED .SUICIDE BY POISONING. Ashburton,, May 6. A man named A. H. Penny, .'traveller for! Duff ■ and Company, soft goods merchants, . Christchurchj, .was found dead in a bedroom of the Somerset Hotel to-day. It appears that he'.got a cup of hnl water from the kitchen and engaged a room., and an lioui' later was found by one of tho 'maids reclining oil tha bed ouito dead. An ompty phial was found in his pockets, and other indications all point to. the case being one of suicide by poison. ' FATALITY AT OTERANGI.. ■ . A FISHERMAN DROWNED.-- . The police received bare particulars yesterday of a drowning fatality at Oterangi, four miles from Terawhiti'. It appears ■that an Italian fisherman named Antonio and his mate went out in a small boat about 7 o'clock in the morning, for tho purpose of .lifting nets which had been set over-night. Whilst engaged work, the boat struck , a rock and capsized. Antonio was thrown out of the boat, and was drowned, but his companion managed to reach the shore. No further particulars woro obtainable last night. ■