ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18515, 28 March 1922, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

TWO BROTHERS DROWNED. (Pm Csited Press AbsooiatiovJ ' FOXTON, March 27. A drowning fatality occurred at Robin, son’s Lake yesterday afternoon. Samuel Baker and Peter Baker, brothers, aged 26 years and 24 years respectively, both married, were drowned. They went fishing m a boat for eels, accompanied hr a lad named John Guppell. Th© boat swamped. Samuel Baker was assisting the boy when he saw his brother in difficulties, and swam back to him, but bofn disappeared. The bodies have not yet been recovered. MOTOR COLLISION. FOXTON, March 27, A Wellington car, containing seven person* including two women, collided with a local oar on Saturday evening. The Wellington oar turned over twice, and the occupants were pinned in. Sinclair, the driver, had his arm badly cut. More serious consequences were prevented bv the hood being up. Both cars were badly damaged, A PROSPECTOR DROWNED. NELSON, March 27. Harry Ridley, about 25 years old, a prospector, said to be,a recent arrival from Wellington, was drowned in the Aor-tre River, Collmgwood, on Saturday, The body has not been recovered. FATALITY AT WAIMATBr W AIM ATE, March 27. James Morrison, married, with three children, wae found dead on the road two miles from his residence on Sunday morning, with a rifle alongside the body. Deceased had been in ill-health for some time. INQUEST. WELLINGTON, March 27. The verdict at the inquest on Eva Simea was that death was due to general Peritonitis, xollowing septic premature labour. FOUND DROWNED. FOXTON, March 27. The adjourned inquest concerning the finding of the body of an unknown man above high-water mark about three-quarters of a. mile from the river mouth last Saturday week wai held this afternoon. The " . police stated that they were unable to find a clue as to his identity, and they presumed the body had been washed in from the' sea. The clothes had the mark of a Christchurch tailor, and the initials J. J. A. were on a linen collar. A verdict of found drowned was returned.