ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 123, 17 October 1914, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

SUICIOK AT MORUINSVJJAB. By Telegraph—Per Press Association. Hamilton, Last Nigh. A Edwin liowe, aged 22 was found dead in a boarding-house at MorringTille this morning, t;lu»t through the head. Evidence at l-l> inquest showed that Uoceascd, a latt tnomber of luo R.X.Z.A., arrived at Te Aroha. from Wellington a fortnight a"o. Prior to going to Morrinsvalle lie had been drinkinj heavily. A verdict of pu'wide -trails temporarily insane was returned. RAILWAY GrARJX INJURED. Auckland, Last Night. .Tames Alan Cordon, a railwav guard, was very seriously injured ah Wcllsford, about seventy-.! ivo miles north of Auckland, this morning, 113 a result of being crushed between a truck and the staging. Cordon is a married man, about Unity, years of age.

BODY I'OL'XI) IN" HARBOR. Wellington, Last Night. The 'body of Edward Spado, ship's fireman, who disappeared from the wharves about three weeks ago, was recovered in the harbor to-day.

SUIWSFID roiXONiXG CASE. Dmicdin, Last Night. News reached I'almerston 'to-day that two men who had eaten some cold puddin" became violently ill, and that one died. While the other is in a very bad way. kihoujrh he is likely to recover. The men had lately aken a contract to dig ditches. The cans,. 01 the trouble is supposed Ho be arsenic.

A MUTINY; FATALITY. Dunedin, Last Night. Au i-.iquest on the body of Robert Walter Sadler, 1,1 veins of age, who was drowned in the Kaikorai stream, was held to-day. The evidence showed that the lio.it. in which deceased and his (brother were paddling started to sink. Deceased remained sealed in the 'bort't until it almost sank, and then «litng to it. A verdio't of accidental death was returned.