ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Southland Times, Issue 17468, 7 October 1913, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

£ DOUBLE SUICIDE. WINTER AND SPRING. (By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright.) LONDON, October 5. Major C. Hamilton Murdoch and Phyllis Boaks were found decapitated on the railway at Southend. The right hand of the man and the left hand of the woman were tied together. The major was sixty-three years of age, and was' recently at' a nursing home, where his wife had been living, she being paralysed and unable to walk for eight years. There he met Miss Boaks, a probationer, an attractive girl of twenty-three. An intimacy was noticed, and Miss Boaks was dismissed. The couple lived together until their money was exhausted and then committed suicide. DROWNING FATALITIES. (Per United Press Association.) NAPIER, October G. John Cardwell, employed on a trawler, was found drowned in the harbour. Tt Is- believed he slipped when going aboard. WELLINGTON. October G. Tbe body of Benjamin Anderson, -15. a casual wharf labourer, was found floating in the harbour yesterday. Little Is known about him. AUCKLAND. October G. The body of an unknown man of about 55 years, and sft. Sin in height, dressed in a well-worn tweed suit, was found on the beach at Orakei. BUSHFELLING ACCIDENT. TAIHAPE, October 6. Rcdford Thomas Ford, S years of age, son of George Ford, a farmer near Rangatua, was killed on Saturday. The father was felling a small tree, when deceased .and a younger brother came near just as the tree was falling. The father called to them to run, and both ran in different directions, deceased going under the falling tree and being instantly killed. At the inquest a verdict of accidental death was returned.