ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2641, 25 October 1909, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

FATAL GUN ACCIDENT. f Per Piti’.ss Association. I AUCKLAND, October 24. A youth named W. Taylor, 17 years of age, while out shooting, fell on a stump at Tryphena, Great Barrier Island, yesterday. A gun lie was carrying went off, and a shot penetrated his eye, with fatal results, the lad dying the same night. MAN FOUND DROWNED. •WANGANUI, October 23. An inquest was held yesterday on the body of a middle-aged man named John Gibson, found in the river. A verdict of found drowned was returned. The body had been about ten days in the water. There is no evidence to show how it got there. MISSING WOMAN’S BODY FOUND. WELLINGTON. October 23. A woman’s body, much decomposed, was found on the. beach near Otaki yesterday. It is supposed to be tho remains of Amelia Hemi, a domestic servant, aged 24 years, a native of Scotland, who had been missing from Wellington since April last. YOUNG BOY DROWNED. DUNEDIN, October 23. Walter James Leslie, aged 5, after school yesterday wandered down to the wharf, and was not seen again alive. Early this morning his frantic father found the body under the steps at the wharf. It was lying on stones within a few feet of the water, which had washed it there. It- is conjectured the boy may have been blown off the wharf by* a sudden gust of wind.