ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
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SUICIDE WHILE INSANE. [Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, January 30. The Coroner's jury brought in a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind in the case of Thomas Meyers, chief officer of the Kanieri, whose body was found in the harbour yesterday. The pockets of the clothes\>n the corpse'were nlled with stones.
A SHOOTING FATALITY. [Per Pbess Association.] DANNEVIRKE, January 30. A shooting fatality occurred in the bush at Tiratu yesterday afternoon. A settler named Thomas Preston, aged twenty-five, a single man, was out alter rabbits, and .is -supposed to have allowed his own gun to fall wheoi croasjng a log, and to have received the contents of tike weapon above the heart. He was later on discovered dead. At the inquest this morning the jury returned a verdict of accidental death. The deoeased came here about fifteen. months ago. His parents reside in the Waikato.
A young man named John Pigott, an j employee of Mr George Garland, was" injured by a falling rock, which crushed his foot, at the Rocky Point Quarry, early this morning. He was taken to the Hospital. ... . H. Gatherer, who was injured in the trap accident last evening, has regained consciousness, and is progressing favourably. . .
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 8841, 30 January 1907, Page 3
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203ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES Star (Christchurch), Issue 8841, 30 January 1907, Page 3
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