ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13373, 6 May 1914, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(Per Press Association.) , FUXTON*. this day

The body of John Ivell, drownc*'while bathiiig - at'Rangiotu on February 22iul,:.iAvas' ; found washed up on ' th'beach yesterday. At . th? inquest heh\ this, morning a verdict was returned o accide'htany:: 'drowned"/ wKile" "bathing ►Deceased was single, aged 23. years, ; native of Leeds, 1 - and a late 1 member o the Seamen's fcTnion and .Wcllingtoii watersiders. . ' ■ NEW PLYMOUTH; last night. A young man named Spencer- Griffiths, a tailor, committed -suicide .this afternoon by Voicing poison. The bddy.. was. found among some lupins on the water front. -.■"-■■■ • - ■ ■■;■'',.■ ■i . .INVERiCARGILL .last night. The inquest on the body pi Mary. Josephine Young, who died aboard the lAfaitai, from Melbourne, showed that death was due to exhaustion following an attack of dysentery. A verdict wa^ returned of death due. to natural causes. >-'On Monday evening the ..body ot a man named William Edie. a well-known resident, of Otauta-u, •Avas found, beside a haystack -.with a gun alongside Jnm. •There was a wound, jn deceaseds, head., Edie, was last seen' alive on. Thursday, when We Was •'ploughing'. 1 No notice oi his absence was taken, but: vlate last night the • ■ body, -., was., vdiscoyered. A letter found.ju J,he,house; clearly showed that the ihtentimV was siuci'de.