ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS
A Wellington telegram savs: Mr Gerald William OTvane, a well-known chemist on Lambton quay, was found dead m his bed. He had complained the previous evening of feeling umveiL It is understood- that he suffered from heart disease.
John Russell, a shunter, aged 29 vears was run over by some tracks while shunting in the railway yard at Auckland on haturday evening, and succumbed in the hospital a few hours later. A collision occurred on Saturday at Whakaronga between a motor car driven L>7 ft lady and a horse ridden bv Erie killed and the nder severely cnt about the an^ eg j • to the hosS tP 6 dnver . of - the ™" had her face cut the scene ot tho accident is covered with an undergrowth of trees, preventing traveller, from getting a full view of the
At the inquest on the bodv of Vera aged 18 years, an emplovee of the Iwuapoi factory, whose bodv wtls H ( m *™ (neaf Now Brighton on baterday, the father said she 1-eit homo on Tuesday, since when lie had. not seen her alive. Ho did not know why she lett homo, ami fi he had gone away on two previous occasions. A verdict wak returned of "Death bv drowning," but that there was no evidence to show whether the drowning was intentional or accidental.
Jamcs Ch-abamn, aged 67, believed to bo a man without a home, was found drowned in tlie harbor. He had an operation some tune ago, necessitating the rtmoval of his tongue.—Auckland telegram.
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Evening Star, Issue 17515, 22 November 1920, Page 6
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