ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16611, 8 December 1919, Page 3

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

DELIBERATE SUICIDE. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Dec. 8. Mr. Woodruff, commercial traveller, from Whakatane, loft tho Wavorley Hotel at one o’clock in tho morning and a few minutes later was seen falling from a balcony on the third_ floor of Endcan’s buildings to tho interior of the pavement below, a distance of SO or 60 (cot. Ho was breathing when picked up, but expired almost immediately. A CASE OF DROWNING. NAPIER, Dec. 8. Fitz Nielson, mill hand, was drowned in tho Mohnka River at Pukotitiri yesterday while bathing with a companion. Tho latter went away for a snort while, and when ho returned found Nielson unco).“-*.)iis in tho wafer. Artificial respiration was unsuccessfully tried. Nielson was a married man with three children.