ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8841, 18 June 1907, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Press Association. Blenheim, June 17, Au inmate of the prison canlp at Duragree, Charles Hamilton Moir, aged 37, who was serving a sentence ■ of 18 months, was drowned in the Awatere River on Saturday afternoon. A gang of prisoners were collecting firewood, and Moir waded out to Secure a floating log, which struck him and carried him out of Ills depth. Another prisoner had a narrow escape in trying to rescue ’ the man. The body .was recovered ! in ten minutes, hut life was extinct. ; ’■„ Nelson* June 17.

Charles Thomas Mansell; aged 25, forlUGrly iii the Telegraph Department at Wellington; and latterly on the farm of his uriclo, Mt J. Thorn, at Stanley Brook, •was found in a shed, face downwards, suffocated among the sheaves, Deceaeed had been subject to epileptic fits. Blenheim, June 18.

At the inquest yesterday on the death of the prisoner Charles Hamilton Moir, drowned in the Awatere river on Saturday, evidence showed that four prisoners wore amusing themselves by floating logs in the stream. Deceased held the tether and the log lurched, pulling him into the water; other prisoners tried to rescue him but failed. Moir was taken out ten minutes later, life being extinct. Medical evidence showed ho had a weak heart. A verdict was returned of accidental drowning, no blame attachable' to any one. The jury commended his comrades for their attempts at rescue.