ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 771, 21 March 1910, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

.CHILD'S FATAL BUBNS. (By Telegraph.—Special Correspondent.) . Carterton, March 20. The four-year-old child' named M'Cauley, who was severely burnt on Friday through a nightdress catching fire, died on Saturday afternoon. . JUMPED OFF WANGANUI BRIDGE. (By Teleerann.—Free«. Associations Wanganui, March 20.

In connection with the suicide of the old man Thomas Harwood, who jumped from the Town Budge into the river on Friday night, it appears that two bandsmen, who were crossing the bridge, were startled by _ hearing a splash, and- almost immediately, came upon a pipe, tobacco, a knife, and, a letter lying o<n the. floor ; of the bridge. The bandsmen immediately oommunicated with the police who were/ however, unable to discover anything further. The letter is addressed to Mrs. George Prince, Westmere, care of the police. The letter was signed "Thomas Harwood" and indicates that the writer had premeditated suicide. "Hie missing man is an old age pensioner' who ' has been in poor! health for : some considerable time. The body has not'yet been discovered'nor has any trace been found of the missing young woman, Miss Sutton. This morning it was reported that a body had been seen floating down the river, and the police went down as far as Castlecliff and back in a boat, Ihey did not, however," find anything.