FATALITIES.
DROWNED IN THE WANGANUI Wanganui, January 9. A man named Jack Brady, aged about 49, a well known contractor, fell off the river steamer at Kaiwhaiki this morning and was drowned. The boat was travelling fast against a strong current, and Brady was carried a long way astern and sank before assistance could reach him. The body has not been recovered.
FOUND DEAD. IN A TRAM SHELTER, (Press Association. —By Telegraph Wellintgon, Jan. 9. The dead body of a man named Patrick Ferguson, about 50 years of age, a fireman by occupation, was found on the seat of a tramway shelter at Oriental Bay at six o'clock this mornnig. There was a bullet wound in his right temple and a revolver, one chamber of which had been discharged, was lying at the man's feet.
The body was quite cold when discovered.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1819, 10 January 1913, Page 5
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