FATALITIES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 711, 6 January 1903, Page 3

FATALITIES.

BURNED TO DEATH, Per Press Association. WAIPAWA, last night. An aged Maori chief, Hemi Turupu, was burned to death on New Year s Eve at Kairakau, through his wharc accidentally catching fire. Only las legs and his arms were found, the body being consumed^ RAILWAY HAND MUTILATED* PALMERSTON N., :last night. A shocking fatality occurred at the railway station this morning, Alexander, Buchan, head storeman, being run over by a shunting train. ihe accident occurred while deceased eyas passing between some carriages which were in motion. Death was almost instantaneous., ITis right leg was severed at the knee and practically at the bip, and his left leg, also practically severed at tho hipj Deceased expired before he was extricated from the wheels. He joined the railway service in 187!) at Wanganui. Ho was aged 50, and leaves a wife and daughter^ OLD SETTLER DEAD., > NEW. PLYMOUTH, dast ifigit. Obituary : Mr Levi 1 Sarten, aged 62 s&id to be the first European child lauded at New Plymouth from the fast ship on March 31st, 184-. He was well-known as a member oi the Harbor Board. A SUICIDE. HAWERA, iasfc night, James Robertson, schoolmaster at Rowam missing since Sunday, December 21st, was found iu the busn on tho upper Manaia road, with the arteries in his neck severed. At the inquest, a verdict of suicide while temporarily; insane was returned*

DREDGE CONTRACTOR’S DEATH NELSON, last night. The drowning fatality in the Bul!er river, causing the death of Thomas Freeman, a dredge contractor,, was due to the capsnzc of a boat with three men. Two hung on to the rone aud the boat. Freeman nearly sweat to the bank through rough water, and sank exhausted on reach jng smooth water* DEATH OF MR BARTHEMAN, DUNEDIN, last, night. Alex. Barthcman, formerly manager of the Bank of Otago, and latterlv secretary or several mimc.g con jwmes, died yesterday after a long illness^

A FATAL FALLj

DUNEDIN, last night. i An inquest was held to-day at <mS*«*» f om a fall while wrestling with another young loan a Rogers had exonerated Bowmer, i T-nmnanion from blame, and raid that he tripped and fell, pulling Bowmer . him The jury returned a verdict of accidental death, no blame being attached to Bowmer. ijy SEAMAN’S FATEj WELLINGTON, last night. A seaman named I‘ raticis fell rom th c fo e topgallant yard of the barque Lettcrewe to-day alongside the (Wen’s wharf. He was Killed 1 Sntaneously. ’ found drowned v WELLINGTON, last night. rp h „ 1)0 dv of the man found in the harbor yesterday has not been idenlilied At the inquest to-day, a ter. diet of found drowned was rcturried : Papers were found on the body,hear jug the name Harris. ’ SUPPOSED SUICIDE,: WESTPORT, last night. 'K miner named Kennedy, about 60 vp-irs of age, was discovered dead in his hut at the old diggings at noon ,_ d y. I-Ie had hied to death rom on apparently self-inflicted wound in ,U m Deceased was understood to have been an officer in th Confederate army during the American Civil War 2 -