ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143770, 19 April 1912, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A GIRL’S SUICIDE. Per Press Association. HAWERA, April 19. Alice Norton, a single woman, aged 20 years, committed suicide at her brother’s residence yesterday by hanging. She left a note that she would be found in the grape house, where her body was discovered in the evening .suspended from a beam. Deceased was a daughter of Mr. Norton, assistantinspector of post offices.

A POISONING CASE.

WELLINGTON, April 18,

Mrs. Letham, a widow, aged 61, died at her residence to-day. An inquest was held, at which it was shown that she had taken bichromate of potash. A verdict was returned of death from poison self-administered while in a state of unsound mind.

SUICIDE OF A BOY.

NAPIER. April 18.

A boy named Charles Alexander Pullar, aged 14J years, who was committed to the Weraroa training farm from Invercargill in January last, and who was arrested 1 here last night, charged with escaping from the farm, committed suicide in his cell at the Napier poliefe station at tea time this evening. The boy had apparently secreted a piece of clothes lino about his person, and having fastened it to a bar in the ventilator hanged himself.