ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 74, 25 February 1918, Page 2

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

DROWNED AT AUCKLAND.

Per Press Association. Auckland, February 25

Alfred Henry M. Jones, a widower, aged 60 years, was drowned in the Mannkau harbor to-day. He had taken a party in a launch to Waikowhai beach, and was sitting in a dinghy alongside the launch when the boat capsized as one of the, guests rh.eppod into it. The latter was rescued by her husband, but deceased sank. The body was recovered. Jones was an engine-driver on the railways.

FOUND DROWNED.

Christchurch, February 25

The body of a, man much decomposed was washed up on the beach at Taylor’s Mistake, near Sumner, yesterday. It was identified at the inquest as that of Edmond Morrison Blake, labourer,* aged fifty, who had a lint nearby, and who had been missi"g for over a fortnight. A verdict of “Pound Drowned” was returned. MAD FROM SCIATICA, Christchurch, February 25. John Truman, a retired farmer in comfortable circumstances, was found hanging in a shed at Spreydon yesterday. Deceased left a letter stating his determination to do away with himself, and that probably he would b:> thought mad, but was not mad ■ -■ v i 1 v suffering from sciatica, as he feared permanent disablement and did not desire to become a burden to his children. The writer added the information where his body would he found. At the inquest a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind was ••^turned.