ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 14134, 14 February 1910, Page 3

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

FATALITIES AT AUCKLAND. Per Press Association AUCKLAND, Feb. 14. James Stanley, who. fell over an embankment at Waitakerei on February 5, died at the hospital yesterday.' Walter Purdio, an elderly man, employed lit the paper mills at Rivorhoad, was drowned on Sunday while bathing. . A MAN SHOOTS HIMSELF. . ' DUNEDIN, Feb. 14. Thomas Shore,..a, guarcLou thedTnritu Coal Company’s railway; Committed suicide yesterday by placing., h. gun : to his mouth and disohargiug'' it;" Deceased was a son of the mine manager. A LAD SHOT DEAD. WHANGAREI, Fob. 14. A belated report is to hand of a fatality at Rnapekapoka on Thursday. It seems that two boys named William. Ross, aged; 14, and Clifford Cadman, aged 13, were out pig hunting; using pea rifles. When crawling through dense fern in pursuit of a wounded pig, the trigger of Cadman’s rifle caught and discharged, tlie contents of the rifle into the head of Ross, - who: was in front, killing him instantly. At the inquest a verdict of , accidental death was returned.' ’ 1