CHAPTER OF TRAGEDIES

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10767, 20 February 1928, Page 5

CHAPTER OF TRAGEDIES

FATHER MURDERS DAUGHTER THEN COMMITS SUICIDE. Electric Telegraph —Brass Association SYDNEY, February 19. Tire body of a girl, Elaine Green, «as discovered on a vacant piece* of land a*t Merrickville with her throat fatally cut. Tlx© girl’s parentis had been living apart. Laist night the* father visited the house in a most excited state and after a heated discussion with his wife took the girl away. Later be returned and said little Elaine was now out of trouble. He produced, a razor and a bottle of chlorodyne and said he would also finish himself. After an all night search the police found Green in a suburban park weak as the result of loss Of blood from a deep gash in the arm. As they approached he drew a bottle of lysol from his pocket and drank the contents. Before lie died an hour later he confessed he killed Elaine in order to save her from a life of misery. NEW PLYMOUTH DROWNING CASE. NEW PLYMOUTH, Last Night. Sometime *o*n Friday evening Frederick William Harrison, aged. 19. fell off the wharf into the harbour. Evidently he struck his head on sorneitlimg and was drowned. The family are living in two different houses and each thought the boy was with tho other. Yesterday afternoon a boy fisliiug on the wharf saw tlie body. He notified a police constable, who* sought assistance of a* man working with a boat on the* beach. The man rowed out to the* body, turned it over and discovered it was ■ his own son. There was an extensive bruise on the* forehead,. It was disclosed tlie boy had intended to* board a launch lying beside the wharf and in going down the ladder probably fell. He could not swim but may have .been rendered unconscious by the fall. MASTERTON MOTOR SMASH. ONE VICTIM SUCCUMBS. MASTERTON, Last Night. In th© motor smash on Saturday morning Frank Shackleton’s skuil was fractured, and the unfortunate man died as the result of his injuries at 8.4-5 in. the evening. NARROW ESCAPE FOR CHILDREN. CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. Y I ole fifty children were crowded on a landing stage at Kaiapoi to-day watching a regatta the staging collapsed and slowly sank, the children bad to liurry ashore* through two feet of water. If tlie eollapise of the staging bad been more complete tlie child i eii would have been thrown into- six leet oi water and a position ©f grave danger would have arisen. One boy swam ashore. The others were able to regain the bank or were taken off the* sinking stage by motor boats. LABOURER KILLED BLENHEIM. Last Night. Shortly after midnight a man named William Gay, single, a labourer, aged fifty-five, was killed, oil the* Pictou road near Spring Creek being run o'er by a motor bus driven by John Edward Hurdlev taxi driver of Picton. Deceased crossed tiie road in front of the bus which swovctl, to avoid him. Tlie man staggered Lack and v.-a*s bit by the radiator. The wheel also passed over him and death was ii *.- ta ii la neons. BLASTING FAT A LIT Y. BLENHEIM. Last Nigrn.. V illiam Bennett, aged 40, of Nile Street. Nelson, was injured blasting at Tinline Valley yesterday. He was admitted to hospital last night and died at 11.25 this morning. MAX'S NECK DISLOCATED. An accident which wa s ultimntoly to have fatal con sequences, occurred at V hakarongo on Friday when a man named Neil Kavdcby fell from a hay .stack to the ground, dislocating his neck. The sufferer when pick od up comp 1 aimed, of pains m the neck. A doctor was summoned and ordered him immediately to the hospital. but the patient died after an operation on Saturday evening. FALL FROM A TREE.

A boy of eight years of age. named Douglas ( oughlan. wa*s admitted to the Palmerston North Public Hospital on. Saturday evening suffering Horn a fractured leg as the result of a fall from a tree.