ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVI, Issue 40, 17 February 1902, Page 3

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Press Association. Electric Telegraph.

Copyright.

Pahiatua, February 17.

A bookseller named Fred Akens died suddenly in the police cell on Saturday morning. At the inquest the jury returned a verdict that his death was accelerated by excessive drinking.

At Makuri a settler named William Dell shot himself in his whare. He was last seen alive on Friday.

Wellington, February 17.

Thomas Venables, a single ma*n, aged about 27, was thrown from a dray while engaged carting wood near Masterton. The wheel passed over his head, death being instantaneous. Deceased was a recent arrival from England.

Nelson, February 17.

A girl named Liley, aged eight, and a boy named Ruffell, aged 5, were drowned in a lagoon at the Stoke Sands yesterday, A woman, and child had a narrow escape from drowning in the same lagoon on New Year's Day. Wanoanui, February 17.

Last week a girl named Hughes, two years old, died, at Waverley as the result of burns. The child took a firestick from under a copper when the mottusj? was washing, and its clothes caught firts. Fatal injuries were received before the jflJstracted mother could extinguish the names, Inyebcaroill, February 17.

David War nock, a weilknown settler, was found dead in a ditch on the roadside leading to his property on Sunday morning,. He was last seen about eleven on Saturday going home. It is surmised the fall atui?ned him, and he was drowned, though there was only a few inches oi water in thedifccJi.