ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 28, 1 February 1913, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

GIRL SHOT BY HER BROTHER

(Per Press Association.!

Dunedin, February 1

Edith Grace Goodson, aged 11, ol Saddle Hill, received severe injuries through being accidentally shot by hei brother. The latter was walking ou* of the house when the trigger caught on something and the weapon was dis charged, the contents lodging in the girl’s neck and shoulders. The girl naremoved to the hospital.

KILLED BY FALLING TREE

Whangarei, February 1

Thomas Ellis and his three sons a cre beating out fires at Jordan yesterday, when a tree fell, striking the second son (Donald) on the back of the head, inflicting deep wounds and bruises. He died three hours later from shock. The deceased was thirteen years of age.

A young man named Cole, while engaged in grass seed cutting on Mr. Harrison’s farm at Mosawatea, says the Waverley ‘Tribune,’ fell on the reap-hook that lie was using, inflicting a very severe cut on the thumb of his left hand. He was brought into Waverley, where the wound was dressed by a doctor.