ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.
■ o MENTAL PATIENT’S SUICIDE. (Per Press Association.) Nelson, .Tune 23. v A mental hospital patient named George Smith committed suicide this morning by suffocating himself with a blanket. FISHERMAN DROWNED. Wellington, dime 23. A Nelson fisherman named Charles Dahlgren, a recent arrival from Greymouth, went in his oil launch to Astrolabe on Tuesday. The launch was picked up with a hole in it. Dahlgren is missing, and the worst is feared. The police are searching. FISHING PARTY MISSING. ( Wellington, June 23. George Hepplo, a storekeeper, and his two sons, aged 15 and 17, started from Petone on a fishing expedition in a small flat-bottomed boat yesterday morning. They were seen off Somes Island at about five o’clock, but have not since been heard from. Grave fears are entertained for their safety.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 105, 24 June 1911, Page 5
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