ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Feilding Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 158, 6 January 1903, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Telegraph. Press Association. Copyright Dunedin, January 6. An inquest was held to-day at Kaitangata into the death of Wm. Roger, who had his neck broken from a fall while wrestling with another young man, a companion. Roger exonerated Bowmer, the companion, from blame, and said he tripped and fell, pulling Bowmer down with him. The, jury returned a verdict of accidental death, no blame being attached to Bowmer. Wellington, January 6. A seaman named Francis fell from the fore-topgallant yard of the barque Letterewe to-day alongside the Queen's wharf, and was killed instantaneously. The body of the man found in the harbour yesterday has not been identified. At the inquest to-day a verdicfc of " found drowned " was returned. Papers were found on the body bearing the name of Harris. Gisborne, January 5. The eldest son of Hugh Heeny, aged 13, was drowned in a water hole to-day. He was out with his three brothers and two brothers darned Griffiths, all younger than himself. They looked on while he went in for a bathe. He got into deep water, and being unable to swim was drowned. Westport, January 6. A miner named Kennedy, about 60 years of age, was discovered dead in his hut at an old diggings at noon to-day. He had bled to death from an apparently self-inflicted wound in; the arm. Deceased was understood to have been an officer in the Confederate Army during the American civil war.