CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11504, 10 February 1903, Page 7

CASUALTIES.

FOUND DROWNED. Information haa been received that Mm Jeseie S. Mitchell, the wife of •Mγ J. H. Mitchell, fanner, bitawlbolm©, was found drowned in a dam about staty yanto from her residence at one o'clock on wunday. Mr Mftdhedl TT*ae from home at the time, and a servant who saw Mus ifitdhell at eleven o'clock etn/tes that she tnt>u appeared all right. Mrs Mitchell had been in ill-health for a conetdenable time. " At the inquest before Mr Keddel, S.M., the evidence showed that deceased was last eeen at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, and about one o'clock her body was found in the pond fully clothed. Her husband was at one of hie forme a few milee away at the time, and the body was first seen by the ohildren. The jury returned" a vercKct that deceased drowned herself while temporarily insane.

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PALMERSTON NORTH, February 9. At Hie inquest on an infant named Boy Sbadbolt, who died ne the result of drinking sheep dip, the jury returned a verdict of accidental death, adding a rider recommending that storeke*pere and other retailers of poisonous liquids be compelled to affix poison labels, ac is done by chemists. In the present instance a email quantity of the dip was purchased from a shopkeeper, and no indication was given of ite poisonous nature. It is probable that proceedings will be taken by the police in the matter.

WELLINGTON, February 9. John Williams, aged 63 yeans, a carpenter, was found dead to-night at the Princess Hotel. NEW PLYMOUTH, February 9. The police have received word that George Langman was killed this , afternoon while felling a tree on his farm near Inglewood. While driving a reaper and binder yesterday a man named John Fitzgerald caught his left thumb in one of the cog-wheels, with* the result that it was torn off. He was taken to the Christchurch Hospital.