DEATH BY . MISADVENTURE [To the Editor of 'the SeEcrivrort.]
Sin,—The article in your issue of April 14th, " Death by Misadventure," reminds me of two curious accidents I read of in two newspapers, several years ago.
The first occurred in (I think) Norway. Three sportsmen went out to shoot elks, when a mountain mist overtook and separated them. One unfortunate man, approaching another of the.party, looked so enormous in the fog that his companion mistook him for an elk, and shot him dead. The second fatal accident was 'of an even more dreadfully grotesque nature. A young, very stout and tall American lady was engaged to a short, slim man. On the eve of the wedding he called to see her, and as, overjoyed, she rushed downstairs to meet him, she tripped and fell on the top of him, causing him to fall back in such a manner that he broke
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