ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
AN INFLUENZA VICTIM. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) TAUMARUNUI, March 30. At the inquest on Theodore John Meredith (85). who was found shot in bed yesterday.' the Coroner returned a verdict that the deceased shot himself in a moment of temporary aberration, his mental condition being induced by abdominal influenza. A BOY SCALDED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) ROTORITA, March 30. ' A boy named Willie, aged five years, a son 'of Tete, fell in a hot water drain. No person witnessed the occurrence and the boy was walking about afterwards, but was taken home, dying this morning as the result of severe scalds. SALESMAN FOUND DEAD. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) HAMILTON, March 30. Hector Cole, age 35, who was engaged as a head salesman, left his motor-car standing yesterday afternoon in the main Hamilton-Cambridge road near Tamahere. This morning Cole's body was found in a scrubcovered gully with a pea-rifle and a bottle containing a white fluid alongside it. /
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Thames Star, Volume LXII, Issue 17390, 30 March 1928, Page 5
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