ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
'; , , YOUNG MAN FOUND DEAD. /'■ [BT TELEGRAM.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.]. Now Plymouth, May 26. A young man named Arthur Percy Cooper, traveller for White and Sons, • drapers, New Plymouth, was found dead near • tho . mouth of the (jeo River this morning. with a shot-gun lying between his ' .logs. Deceased was about twenty-four years of ago, and had been about four years in. tho Dominion, wliero. hei had no relatives.; He had complained yesterday of ill-health. ' , , COALMINER. KILLED. " ' . Creymouth, May 26. Robert Lumsden,, fifty years of age, waskilled in. the State coal miiio by a fall ' of coal this morning. He loaves a- wifi aud four children. DEATH FROM BURNS. . Christohurcli, May 26. Beatrice Shiels,'a child five years of ago, was admitted to the hospital on Saturday Buffering from severe burns, the result of her clothes catching fire. She died yesterday.. A verdict of; accidental death was returned; at the inquest. A seaman named Frederick J. Kelly, a single man, 40 years of age, residing at Mrs. Watson's boardinghouse, Taranaki Placo, broke his log near the ankle whilst working ; at tho Patent Slip yesterday. Kelly was-at work on a staging, when ho lost his footing and fell a distance of abont 16ft. Ho was taken to tho Hospital for treatment. ■
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 208, 27 May 1908, Page 7
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