FATALITIES
(Peb United Press Association*.)
AUCKLAND, February 8.
A single man named David John Thomson, a linotype operator, committed suicide this afternoon by drinking lysol. Deceased also inflicted wounds on his throat, but poison was the cause of death. The reason for the act is unkown.
MARTON, February 8.
Richard Hamilton Miles, the three-year-old son of Mr J. H. Miles, solicitor, was burnt to death yesterday afternoon through a tin of benzine catching fire and being upset over him. Fred. Avis, in attempting to save him, was severely burnt about both hands.
MASTERTON, February 8.
Mr John Alexander Maclean, auctioneer, of this town, a single man, aged 31, and son of Mr Lachlan 1 Maclean, auctioneer, of Dunedin, was found drowned in the Waipoua River this evening. He was in bathing trunks, and had evidently been seized with a fit.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 15063, 9 February 1911, Page 8
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