ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.
A single man named Arthur Calder, a wharf labourer, living at Bluff, cut his tliroat yesterday with a razor. Tho police found him shortly after midday, and called in a doctor, who attended to him, and ordered his removal to the Southland hospital. A fatal accident occurred at the Waitemata hotel, Auckland, yesterday morning, when Maud Mary Shannon, aged about 44 years, fell from a window at the hotel. She was dead when picked up. Deceased, who was married, and had a grown-up family, was employed as a housemaid at the hotel.
AVhilo crossing the Dobson river, some seventy miles beyond Ivurow. Otago, on AVednesday last, a shepherd named Charles AVilliam Morgan, aged 29 years, was washed off his horse and drowned. The river was slightly in flood at the time. It is believed that deceased raceived a kick from the horse which rendered him incapable of saving himself. Deceased, who was a splendid horseman and an excellent swimmer, saved a man from drowning two months ago.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 106, 5 April 1926, Page 7
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169ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 106, 5 April 1926, Page 7
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