ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17936, 1 November 1918, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

SHOOTING FATALITY. [Per Pbbss Association.] GORE, October 31. William Latham, _ aged fifty-five years, and an old resident, was snooting' rabbits this morning with a pea riffe, which exploded while he was getting through a goree fence. The bullet lodged above the right ear, and he was found dead shortly afterwards. He leaves a widow and a family of ten, tivo of hi 3 sons being at the front.

A single man named Edward Ernest Bright, aged thirty-four years, residing with his parents at Hampstead, Ashburton, was found hanging from a beam in the washhouse yesterday morning. The deceased had his breakfast about 8 a.m. and left the house with the intention of going out on his bicycle. On going into the yard about 9 a.m., his mother found that the cycle had not been taken, and entering the washhouse later, 6he found the body suspended by a piece of binding twine. An inquest was held at the Morgue during the afternoon, before Mr James Cow, District Coroner, and a verdict was returned of suicide while temporarily insane.