ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
A SUICIDE. By Telegraph —Press Association. Ashburton, .Last Night. A married man named Charles Edwin Jeffers, a butcher, committed suicide late this afternoon. His body was found in an outhouse at his residence in Ashburton by his brother-in-law at 5.40 p.m., his throat being cut. Jeffers, who was a well-known resident and a fairly young man, had just disposed of his interest in a butchery business. lie was last seen alive at 3.30 p.m. The act was evidently committed with a razor, and though the deceased left a .farewell note the contents have not transpired, and the reason for the suicide is as yet unknown, the news coming as a shock. A FALL FROM A HAYSTACK. Dunedin, Last Night. Win. Peak, a laborer, 26 years of age, died in the Clyde Hospital last night as the result of falling off a haystack on April 20. His spine was fractured.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 252, 24 April 1912, Page 5
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