Accidents and Fatalities.

Manawatu Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 7159, 9 February 1901, Page 2

Accidents and Fatalities.

What appeaw _t, have been a det^raiin.jii <■~>,; 01 suicide occin-ed at lti n ., wood (Victoria) remit.'v. An ofd woman J(illjhaa Sophi - Jq J I'oum . About mno o'clock in th o morn--Nckiu.l.^ to lut bu.shaud, "Otto :.0,,n,-on .IhaxeKOt v apti Wl 1 do i " i-Icrhu.band took uwav "rho ran but Srde^d ch iUlei aft°r W"lked^S •no i f I Sroaninfe'- iie looked -angmg by tho neok. He cut her down, ,h e dud in a. few minutes. The -.ody was m a iiUeeli itj aft,r b.ing only 4ft Sin from tho .^louud. JJuceasc-d, who suffered from proMchitis, sevonii times threatened to iiiu herself. ,

Tho ■Queensland police received a telegram recently from JJcnvrn. slating that a swag, a gun, nnd a letter have bicn found on the jetty, the letter purporting to be i:oin a man named -Buekman. The message soiled tha' his mate, 4udcison, who has bteii mis/ing for souin time, was accidentally hlioi IVuiu behind whilst he a .d Deckman woro proceeding up Ohpsv Hill Occk, and that ifcektnan bun.-d him. The letter iudicu,ti-cl the position, a'ld :--s-d that. b;-li.jr Wf , My of Cun ti;»HHl innu^r, ho ii-1. fKman,) had dolermiued to eouatiit swioido.

The Sydney city coroner has eoneluded -in vwiuc-st which was kittled on January ?.i, J llix „. VBierc.«« to the •Imie Agnes McAlister, who resided with lier hu&Dand at Buiuuierhill. Dcue-isod who was -Wy^M of age, was the wifo of Willwm Sti-wavo WcAlister, a wine uiinasrr. O« tho night of the 20lh si!? .Miwdtu her room as usual, to K o to bed and shonJ.y H rt,r»v«rd ß the otliw i members oi ih« family heard a sm-iii.*« sound, as of heavy breathing, proceeding frooi the direction of the" aStn? Ui.cousc.ous condition. A medical ia