ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 23, 25 January 1913, Page 8

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

A FATAL MISTAKE. r OEI (Per Press Association.) Gisborne, January 24. Richard Charles de Thierry, who drank carbolic acid in mistake for home-made beer, on Tuesday, died , ij afternoon. FOUND DEAD. Wanganui, January 24. A man named Joseph Dickenson, a single man, aged 65, was found dead i i his whare at Westmere this afternoon. He was engaged driving waggons ' i connection with the new reservoir, v; d after unyoking his horses at five o’clock, went to his room, where he •as found dead on his bed a little latc A DROWNING FATALITY. Rotorua, January 24. News has just been received that vlrs. Forsyth, a visitor from New doath Wales, was drowned at Okere ..is evening. With her husband, she is fishing in a trout pool, when a

; ; : p made by Mr. Forsyth caused her o fall into the water. Mr. Forsyth it temp ted to save her, but the force of he current swept him away, ami * aen assistance arrived he was ironght ashore exhausted, Tho body i.is not been recovered.