ACCIDENTS AND FATALITHES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13353, 18 April 1911, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITHES.

SUPPOSED SUICIDE. ! (Per Uaited Press Association.) I NELSON, April 13. Frank Gaigcr, aged 30, recently on the I railway works at Tui, was found on ITiurs- | day night unconscious on the Haven Koad, j near Saltwater Bridge. He was bleeding from the nose and month, and a revolver wim one diamber discharged was beside I him. lie died on removal to the hospital. 1 Deceased had been staying at the Globe i Hotel for 10 days, and had been subject to ! despondency. The inquest opened yester- ! day, the evidence pointing to suicide. Gaiger was formerly manager of the Trafalgar Hotel at -Nelson.

FOUND SHOT. NELSON. April 15. John P. Livingstone, of Wakapuaka. a man of independent means, was found shot at the back of his dwelling this morning. No other details are to hand. TWO GIRLS DROWNED. NELSON, April 17. { While playing on the sands near the i quarantine station at Tahnna this aftcr- | noon, two sisters named Wilson, aged re- | speetively 9 and 10 years, got out of their j depth and were drowned. The bodies have not yet been recovered. The children were inmates of St. Andrew's Oprhanagc, and their father lives at Westport.