ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 19757, 6 January 1928, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

WOMAN’S FATE

A startling discovery was made on a farm at Tekiri yesterday morning, when a farmer found his stepmother dead, with a wound in her throat and a razor besiclo the body. The deceased was Charlotte Lilian Ferguson, a widow, aged about fifty-six years, who had been living with her stepson, Charles Joseph Ferguson. The deceased had been in poor health for a long time, and for several months had been receiving medical treatment for nerve trouble. An inquest will be held.— Hawera message. BOY DROWNED. A Hamilton Association message states that a drowning accident occurred near Ngaruawalna, when a boy, Alfred Henry Molesworth, aged seven, who was bird-nesting with other small boys on the bank of the Waikato River about two miles below Ngaruawahia fell into the river and was drowned. WORRY AND DEPRESSION. A Pahiatua Asosciation message states that at the adjourned inquest yesterday on Francis Cleghorm Dempsey, aged twenty-five, who was found dead on Sunday last in his bath, with an empty bottle of poison near by, a veridet was returned of suicide through drinking poison, the act having been caused through mental depression owing to illhoalth and worry over an accident he had been involved in.