ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 88, 9 December 1912, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

ACCT DENTALLY SHOT. (Per Press Association.) ■ ■ ‘ Cambridge, December 8. A party of four young men went out from Cambridge driving this morning in the direction of Matamata, taking with them a Winchester rifle to shoot rabbits, and whilst stopping by the roadside for lunch one of the party, named William. Boatli, aged 26, a native of Dundee, Scotland, employed at Cambridge as a journeyman tailor, went to the conveyance to get the gun, which suddenly went off, and the bullet passed through Boath’s throat, severing the jugular vein. He died in a few minutes. Boatli had recenly been using the gun, and presumably had left it in the vehicle loaded and cocked. The body was taken into Cambridge.

A SETTLER’S SUICIDE. Master ton, December 9. A settlor named Robert Dirkson. living at Matiricevillc, was, found dead in his house yesterday with a gunshot wound in his breast. The weapon was lying alongside his body. He.was last seen alive a week ago. • j A YOUNG MAN DROWNED. Napier, December 9. William Cooper, aged about 99, a single man, was drew bathing' in the Clive yesterday. Tie got into deep water, and being unable to swim, was carried out to sea by the current. The body has not been recovered.