ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2109, 28 March 1914, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

(fly Tc'leKraph.- l'rcsfi Acsocjaljoii.) CROSSING FLOODED STREAM, Gisborne, March 27. A. leporfc from Tuparoa states that two men, whoso names are unknown, wero crossing a flooded stream what cun becamo exhausted, and i'ell into tile river and was drowned. His rate reached land in ah exhausted condition. and is unable to giro an account of tho fatality. Tho deceased is supposed to -have been a Swede. . . TRAGEDY AT PAIiXASSTJS. Chrisfchurch, Starch 27, An inquest was beid yesterday'at \Vai« . kari touching., tho death of Erie Andrew Black, age/1- 30, a single- man who had been found shot at Parnassus, Deceased hud been considrribh d( piessed of late .•Hid was suffering from the fear that lio woirl'l go wrong in bis head. He had . . t<;ld his sister tint 1 r Mould he belter : d>'ad than alive, ilo ieio nonie at 7.1)0 a.m. 011 Wednesday, as if to go to (.'lll-. verdeii, but some time later his body was found in a sheep pen, with a p,u:i- .. \ shot wound in the head. There was a g-U.ii lying near him. A verdict; was ' returned that death was dun to a gunshot wound inflicted by deceased wbilo sftia state of unsound mind. "WOMAN DRINKS POISON, Dunedln, March 27, Tho superintendent of poiieo has received a telegram from St. Nathans stating that Christina Sutherland Williamson, a married woman, of B'.ai-k----stono Hill, committed suiciuo yesterday by drinking a quantity oi' poison.