ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
> SUDDEN DEATH OF AN OLD MAN. Edward Boobman, an old man, dropped dead in the street near St. Mary's Vicarage, New Plymouth, about midday on Tuesday. He bad been brought before the S.M. on a charge of not being, under proper control, and w<u remanded formedic.il treatment. While tin the Court be was very weak, and Constable Lind and a man named Thomas Murray were assisting him to the gaol, when he expired. Deceased was a settler on the Dorset-road, and had been drinking heavily lately sine* the death of his wife. He was arr< sied on Monday evening by Constable Lind. 'An inquest will be held at the Hospital at 2 o'clook this afternoon.
The Eltham Argua reports that a settler named Jens Christiansen was found dead in an orchard on his farm at Okaiawa yesterday morning. He had committed suicide by banging.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 222, 2 October 1901, Page 2
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