ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 21, 6 January 1928, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

(Per Press Association). The drowning of Claude Mulvaney, a married man, of Auckland, and Howard Bernard Loft the 9-year-old son of a Westmere family, formed tho tragic ending to a picnic party on the Wanganui river yesterday. Mulvaney and his wife were spending » holiday with the Lofts, and with Mrs Loft and the latter’s four children went for a holiday outing. De ceased were bathing, when they stepped off a ledge into deep water. The boy was in difficulties, and although Mulvaney was not a swimmer, he went to the assistance. Both sank out of sight, but two other children, who were also in trouble were saved by the mother. The bodies were re covered by the police half an hour later. The boy was found tightly clasped in Mulvaney’s arms. The body of a woman named Annie Waters was found by a boy in the lupins at St. Kilda, Dunedin, at 3.30 p.m. yesterday afternoon. Decensed, who lived with her sister at 43 Douglas street, St. Kilda, was reported missing nt 4.30 en January 3. A drowning accident occurred aea. Ngaruawahia, when Alfred Henry Molcsworth, aged 7 years, while bird nesting with other small boys on tne banks of the Waikato river, about two miles below Ngaruawahia, fell into the river and was drowned, rue body ha: not yet been recovered. At an adjourned inquest, at I’alua tua yesterday, on Francis' Cleghorn Dempsey, aged 25 a single man who was found dead on Sunday last in a bath with an empty bottle of poison nearby a verdict was returned of suicide through drinking poison, the act having been caused through metal depression owing to ill-health and worry over an accident deceased had been involved in.