ACCIDENTS & DEATHS.
(Per Press Association).
■WELLINGTON, September■ 24.
The-ljocly ol John* William Wilkina,a resident of l'ctone, was discovered on tin* railway ;it Ivaiwarra about--10.30 last night by tho driver of an ineominji trsun. The lower portion oi; th« body was badly mangled. It is not knou v how the man cumo to be there. .CHRISTCIII'KCJI, September 2,5. A shockingly sudden death occurred shortly after 1 ]).m. yesterday in IMrn. Smith's ton rooms, Armagh Street, the vircim beinj^ identified as Nellie Horn, about. :)n years of age, whose relatives re.-ide ;ir, Woljinoton. She. was in Lhe act. oi' drinking a cup of to:t, when she had a stroke and an effusion ot' blood to the head, dying almost immediately. The woman was in Christchnrch on a holiday, and was staving at tho People's Palace. She hud no friends of relatives here, and hor relative* only lately arrived in Vi'"!iiiiyl,)n from ILobart. An 'inquest was held yesterday Ik>-I'oi-o Mr H. W. Bishop, Di'stnV-i. I Coroner, touching the death of Joseph Henry KKlob. aged Go yoars, monlder. Tlie i Coronei 1 returned a verdict o,f suicide while «f unsound mml.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3563, 25 September 1916, Page 4
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187ACCIDENTS & DEATHS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3563, 25 September 1916, Page 4
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