ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 191, 24 August 1901, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

PES PRESS ASSOCIATION. WKLLINQTON, August 23. At the inquest on the death of W. 8. Simkin, the jury returned a verdict of suicide during temporarily insmity, brought about by illness and overwork. Palmebston North, August 23. A young man named Harold Knight, aged about 21 years, eon of Mr. Thos. Knight, an old s&t'ler here, was found dead at his pireats' residence this morning. Djctased was shot in tbe head, but whath r it was accidental or otherwise is not at present known. j

Lateb. Enquiries made by tbe police ahow tbat the sloning of Harold Knight was purdy accidental.

Auckland, Augu-t23. Tbe Coroner held n irqu?i-t on the body of a m»n, name unknown, whose remains were fonnd on the Waitakerni r«nges a few d.ys «go. Qr, Lewis Slid the rem tins were those of a male udult, about 3,0 years of age, and had bean lyi'g there abou'. three ye rs. The jury, after h-jating th» evi'lenie of ofcber witnesses, leturned a verdict that tbe name uuknown, bad committed BU'cide some time jn 1898 Dunk ik, August 23. At the inquest on the body of ihe man run over by the tr'io the evi-| wi nt to show tint the body was tha*. of Prttiick Hnlley, who has sisters at Temuku and Invercargill, It is su: mite 1 that as tbe train w*s btanding on the street fur torn 9 time decaased attemp'ed to cro-s over the couplings batween two 1 rucks, and fell when they started again. Tbe verlict was that the man, suppled to be Patrick HaHey, was killed by the train, no bjima being attachable to anyone