ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 21881, 19 November 1934, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

OEER-STALKING FATALITY. Accidentally shot through the chest' while on a deer-stalking expedition in the Tauherenikau Ranges, Charles James Galliers, aged twenty-four, of Wellington, died while being carried out of the bush on a stretcher. Ha was a married man with a young child l .: A rifle dropped; by a- member of the party while they were descending a bank discharged a bullet which pierced Galliers’s chest and narrowly missed his brother, who was standing behindhim.—Wellington Press Association. YOUNG MAN DROWNED. Rodger Midgley Sowman, aged twenty-three, was drowned while bathing in the Malta! River late on Saturday afternoon. He suddenly disappeared below the surface. When the body was recovered it was found that death had occurred.—Nelson,Press Association telegram. EYES INJURED, Injuries to the eyes were received by Harold M’Lay, aged fifteen years, who resides with his parents at 47 Briges street, Maori Hill, on Saturday evening, when some chemicals jvith winch! he was experimenting exploded. lie was admitted to the hospital. SUICIDE INDICATED. A Wellington Association message states that the apparent suicide of a youth named Dutton, aged 17f years, occurred at a house in Parliament street about 5 p.m. yesterday. . The occupants of the house heard a shot, and then discovered the body. It is understood that a letter was found near the body. BUTCHER FOUND DEAD. Albert James Maurice, single,-twenty-seven years of age, was found dead in his butcher’s shop in Riddiford street at 9.15 last evening. The circumstances suggest gas poisoning.-* Wellington Press Association.