ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1269, 26 October 1911, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

f - DEATH AT SEA. "' Molba Caldwell., aged five months, died ■,' on the lonic, which arrived from London 1' yesterday, on September 22, and was buried at sea. e, r . SUICIDE. U, (By TclcgraDU.—Press Association.) t- Christchurch, October 25. i. A case of determined suicide occurred 3. near Akaroa yesterday afternoon, (he viob, lim being an old resident of the peninsula T. named John Wilkin. Deceased was in e, tlic habit of taking a daily walk, not ren, turning till late in tho day, and no notice ■t- was taken of his absence". Two of his s- sous, however, when returning from work found their father hanging by tho neck in a whare, quito dead. Deceased had been suffering from ill-health recently, and expressed his intention, of ending his a ' life if affected again. F - DEATH OF A DOCTOR. 0j (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Dargavillc, October 25. Dr. R. Harrison Ciilpin died suddenly , under tragic circumstances last night, lie was found dead close to his home at G. 30 o'clock this morning. It appears the doctor loft home last night shortly after .: 7 o'clock to visit a patient, but never returned to his house. Early this morning his eldest son went to look for him, aad found him lying face down near a windmill. A post-mortem examination is being made. s , LITTLE BOY'S ACCIDENT. Leslie Clarke, seven years of age, whose parents reside at No. 12 Rhodes Street, i. Newtown, was admitted to the hospital last night, suffering from a broken leg, the result of a fall whilo playing with somo companions.