FATALITIES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 807, 23 January 1903, Page 4

FATALITIES.

A WELL-KNOWN STEWARDESS DROWNED.

[BY TKLKtll'.Al'H. — MSES 3 ASSOCIATION.) Dunc-din, last night. Mrs Annie Wrigley Coulter, forecabin stewardess of the s.s. Victoria, on returning to the boat at cloven o clock last night after visiting some friends, fell over the wharf, and was drowned. Mrs Coulter was a widow, aged between 45 and 50, and belonged to Melbourne. As far as can be ascertained, she loaves no family. She was formerly stewardesss on board the Westralia and has been in the employ of Huddart Parker and Company for about three years. The Victoria arrived at the wharf yesterday and was to leave at 10 o’clock this morning. Wellington, last night. A shunter named Frederick William Swift) employed at the Pctono railway station, was accidentally Killed while shunting shortly betore midnight. A queer feature about the fatal railway accident at Pctono last night is that Swift’s body was found clear of the rails, and had apparently not been run over, though the neck was broken, the jaw dislocated, and a deep gash in the side of the neck. No one saw the accident. It is supposed that deceased was struck by something when jumping off a truck. Lie was 21 years of ago.