ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2736, 15 February 1910, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A FATAL FALL

rp K p Press Association.j 1 AUCKLAND, Feb. 14. James Stanley, who fell over an cmhankment at Waitakare, on Imbruary 5, died in the hospital \eaUrday.

DROWNED WHILE BATHING. Walter Purdie. an old man, cm ploveifat the at R.y«rh«.d was drowned wnue bathing on cunaay

MAN FOUND DEAD

WELLINGTON, Feb. 14. A man named James Simson wnfound dead in a stable m Grant Road at 3 o'clock yesterday morning. An inquest was held in the afternoon, wnen a verdict was returned that death was due to the rupture of a varicose vein in the leg.

A DETERMINED SUICIDE. DUNEDIN. Feb. 14. Thomas Shore, a guard cn the Tamil Coal Company’s railway, committed suicide yesterday by placing a gun in his mouth and discharging it. He ua* a son of the mine manager.

A PEA RIFLE FATALITY. WHANGAREI. Feb. 14. A report is to hand oi a iataLity which occurred at on Thursday. Two boys named Y Nan: Ross, aged 14, and Cunord Cad man. aired' 13. were out p;g hunting, using pea rifles. Y hen trailing through dense fern in pursuit oi a won need jug. ire trigger of C-adman s rifle caught, discharging the contents or the rifle into the head of Ross, who was in iront. killing him instantly. At the inquest a verdict of accidental deata v.as returned. BODY OF MISSING* MAN FOUND. TAIHAPE. F- b. 14. The bedy of the negro. George Yard, who was last seen in the bed of_ tin river Ohutu on Wednesday, "fishing'' the water and wildly shout:a u. was recovered yesterday a short distance rroin where deceased was last _seen.__ A: an inquest to-day a verdict of suicide while temporarily insane was returned, Ihe body had to be hauled up the cliff over 100 feet high. AX AUCTIONEER'S SUICIDE. BLENHEIM. Feb. 14. j he body of Lionel Tuke, auctioneer for Clouston and Co., was found tins morning in a grain store on xiie bank oi the Opawa river with a bullet in the forehead and a revolver in his hand. He had been dead for scale

hours. Tuke was las: seen on Sunday evening. He was a well-known tennis player, and had resided at Blenheim for two and a half rears.

TWO BOYS DROWNED. GORE, Feb. 14. Two boys, named McKay and Henry r both about 8 years old. were drowned in the river at Maiaura while bulbing this afternoon. Henry's body has been recovered.