ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13489, 10 January 1908, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

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Press Association-By Telegrapb-Convrigtii Received 10.10 p.m.. January 9tl>. LOXDOX, January 9.

Tlk' police are sati-slied th;it the body of the woman found oii October 10th ill Wroxall Woods. Goring, is that of :u Sydney woman .who disappeared in May during a state of depression owing to the alleged •stoppage'' of her allowance. A relation identified! a gold-studded hair comb, and two female acquaintances identified a .silver buckle and clothes. Death is attributed to an overdose of morpliia, a liyperderinic syringe being found on the 1 iod v.

The " Uaily Mail " stilts.> that the found at Goring was that of Mrs Dolly Scot I Harden, reported to have been the' wife of a Sydney solicitor. A friend of Iter's says I hat' (she I lied, but failed, to tain her living by her pen or on the stage. She took morphia to relievo acute neuralgia. Her friends received a. letter from Jk»i- on May 9th tta.ting that- she intended to commit .suicide as she was'terribly depreMsed that day and reluctant to live upon friends or charity. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, January 9. The dead body of a- man named John S. Wright", was tound in a. liouise- in Howe street doubled up in a pool of blood. The throat was cut from ear to •ear. There were also gashes on the amis, and a razor bearing marks, of the traged}-, was lying near by. Wright was a. man about 60 years of ay:-, and a tailor by occupation. He recently arrived from Sydney. CHRISTCHURCIT. .Tan. 9. A married woman named Emma Partridge. asred 52, the wife of a farmer living in Victoria, .street. Si. Martins, died suddenly yesterday afternoon, after complaining of pains in her head. Death is attributed to heart disease. At the inquest- on the body of Charles 'a Crossu. who d'ed in th" train on. Tuesday while on the way to the Christchurch hospital, a verdict was returned of death from heart failure.