ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
CHILD BURNED TO DEATH. [PEE PEESS ASSOCIATION.! HAWERA, Sept. 11. Lilian Harper, the eight-year-old child of William Harper, a settler at Mokoia, was admitted to the hospital yesterday morning suffering. from burns. The child had got out of bed to put a piece of wood on the fire, when her flannelette clothing caught fire. She died in the evening from shock. FOUND DROWNED. CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 11. At the inquest concerning the death of*Mrs. Andrew Todd, a verdict of found drowned was returned. The Coroner said that from what he knew of the woman she was the last person likely to take her own life. TWO MYSTERIOUS DEATHS. AUCKLAND, Sept, 11. At 8 o’clock yesterday. . Alexander t Nelson, aged 43, shift boss in a tunnel on the railway line near Maungaturoto, was found dead in his bod at the camp. Tn the afternoon the body cf Michael McKenna, aged 56, ganger on the* lane, was found in a paddock 200 yards from the camp. A FATAL COLLISION. James Devonpoit, aged jl, injined presumably by a collision* with a motoi car on. the 3rd inst., died to-day.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3320, 12 September 1911, Page 6
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188ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3320, 12 September 1911, Page 6
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