ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES
A LAUOIT.KK'S DEATH. (Per United Press association). AUCKLAND. April 6. Henry .loaning, a married man. employed by the City Council at the rubbish destructor, was jammed against a W'all by a shall of a dray, and died a & few minutes. FISHERMAN drowned. THAMES, April C. diaries Busin a fisherman. aged twenty-seven years, was drowned while fishing in Thames river yesterday. He was engaged cleaning nets when his dinghy capsized. Hi< mate saw Bush swimming to the launch, bn! lie suddenly sank i eioto assistance could reach him. Police- parties are dragging the liver BURNED TO DEATH. AUCKLAND. April «. jnnnie Davis, ag' l *! seven ty years, widow of U. B. Davis, im merly headmaster Of Norwich school, was burned to death in a house in Upper Queen street yesterday morning. At one a.m. Mrs Allben. occupier of the house, hearing a noise in the room let to Mrs Davis, hastened to the room, and was horrified to find flames darting under the floor. Mrs Allhon opened the door and found the room a mass of flames and the woman lying face downwards on the bed. apparently dead. She was dragged out. when it was found that she had been horribly burned, life being extinct. The brigade soon arrived on the spot. and confined the fire to the room in which jt origina u-d. The origin is a mystery, but it is supposed that Mrs Davis touched the curtains behind the door with a lighted candle. KILLED BV A TRUCK. DUNEDIN. April t;. Joseph Gilkison, thirty-eight years of age. a ganger, employed on Hie irrigation works at Ophir. died from the injuries received through being run over ty a truck. SHOOTING FATALITY - . CARTERTON. April C. Sydney Mason Gladstone, aged was found dead with a gunshot wound in his lace at Gladstone Hills. He went shooting turkeys yesterday. His horse returning home riderless aroused anxiety, and search 1 was instituted, with the result that ins body was found this morning at 6 o'clock. The police are bringing the body to Carterton.
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Southland Times, Issue 17620, 7 April 1914, Page 6
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340ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES Southland Times, Issue 17620, 7 April 1914, Page 6
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