ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13351, 8 April 1914, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(Per Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, this clay. William Eustace, 58 years, committed suicide at Otahuhu, cutting his throat with a razor. He had recently started business on his own account at Papatoetoe. Ho leaves a widow and five children.

DUNEDIN, last night, (jieorge Harrow, an old resident of Macetown, Mas found dead m his hut at the Eight Mile yesterday. There was a bullet wound m his forehead and a revolver beside the body. A note was left by deceased, stating that lie was m bad health, and tired of life. He was a single man, 82 years of age, ancl had lived at the Eight Mile for over 40 years.

White attempting to recover a number of cases of benzine that had been dropped down a well at the rear of Crabtree's hotel on the night of the explosion at' Upper Hiitt, a young man named -H. T. Whitmean had a narrow escape from death. He descended the well by a rope 30ft long, and had sent up three cases and three tins of benzine. lie gave no answer to a call after the ro*>e h:td come np the next time, and Mr Thomas Edwards, a member of the Town Board, suspecting an accident, immediately slid down the rope, and found Whiteman unconscious, overcome by th* fumes escaping from the benzine., It >ms not till early next morning that Whiteman recovered consciousness.