DOUBLE TRAGEDY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15821, 19 January 1915, Page 7

DOUBLE TRAGEDY.

DEATH OF TWO RABBITERS.

EESULT OF DRINKING BOUT.

fur in vcRAi-n own coRRrsroNDEXT.] Pat.mfjistos North, Monday. ',%- unusual - curronee has taken plan) nt IV'iisTi'' 1 •'• "'■'"■ '"ii.\ton, resulting in the deaths if tw,. run, formerly residents of ]' 'nn-r.-ton N<";:h At nine o'clock on Friday -V Kiraituel Whit* reported that a man ■.:.'. i 11.'her* Patterson had died suddenly ... ii - '.-amp mi the Beach Road, (.jjiKi!'' : . -mii wiles from Rongoiea, uhei*' '•■'.'• ".-:<' in rabbiting on tho M. !<-:■■■■ ''>;■■'--'• W./i!'. ..•.:<; report in:; the particulars (~ Con m ..bio Martin nt Rongotea, wont to "I;-, \V ii '•"■>!• r'.s dinghouse. whore ■jif <~- k ,i ••■ ■nmi. ,Kit ion b»r the night. On til,- (<■■■]';■■■■• v.: inriniiij; Mr. Foster heard Wli.ii' '' ' : J : .: al-iat the house soon after ; ve >' ;■•:.• He i'".-e and let him out, and *,' a returned to bod. About a r-aart-T of a h- ur later he went out attain sad f ■••!•! W" to lyin; «.n the pavement. Mr. '.'-'■■'• •■ ■ -'I'.c.i the matter to the n I:.-'- I'i >:. ii'i.:hl was summoned, and fc,> I', n-' ';'" in lie extinct. !'.•;■.. -■'.'. -. ~- a man of about, co years c: a,-', ii- 'a,- no friends, so far as ia l;no"n.::, :hi< district, but it is stated t'u.it lie a:i. n-ied sch<-ol years ago in Palraer.-'"! x -vth. White- was a man of about '■■■■ and fur many years was a resident .:' Palnieiston North. Ho bad been en,-.;:>-d in contrartinj:, and was wellknown a- a pig-breeder. He leaves a vife and .- 11, who live in Palmerston. Tb.e 1 ■"}: 1 0* iv,is held at Rongotea on Sunday morning before Mr. E. Good be- ]-(. . coroner of Podding. Mrs, White identified the body of Patterson as that of 1 man who bad been to the house at Palmerston North during the Christmas holidays. White in his statement to Constable Martin at Rongotea stated that, he and Patterson had been having a very heavy drinking bout at the time at their carup. Mrs. White, identified the other body as that of her husband. Her son gave similar evidence. V . Stond.ibl, who made a post-mortem en Ktli bodies-, state.! that the deceased ru»n were suffering from alcoholic poisonl";. which caused heart failure. A verdat in accordance with the medical evidence was returned.

The funeral took place at R-ongotea on Sunday afternoon.