CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16412, 4 January 1919, Page 10

CASUALTIES.

♦— SUDDEN DEATH. Mr Silas John Jeffery, farmer and contractor, of died suddenly at the Masonic Hotel there, on Thursday night. Mr Jeffrey was staying at the hotel afc the request of the licetisoa during the temporary absonce of the members of the family, and retired to bed about 10 p.m. Before retiring he wjis given a watch to onable .him to toll the time if he should happen to wake up during the night. At 7 a.m. yesterday, he was found sitting on the lie.!, dead, with the watch still in his hand. He had recently complained of his hoart. but was in his usual health on Thursday. Mr Jeffrey, who was o 1 years of age. leaves a widow and ono son and one daughter. An inquest- was held before Mr T. A. B. Bailey, District Coroner, when a verdict of.death from heart failure was returned. A man named Brydon was admitted to the Chiistchureh Hospital yesterday afternoon suffering from broken ribs and injuries to the body caused by a 'kick from a horse. : The aceideut occurred nt. Nw Brighton. Uavmond Lester a lad right years of rgo. rC'iiulng with his parents' at 30 Colombo strpot; fell from n tree and broke his arm. , He wns Irctue:! Nt the Hospital. (press association: ttxegkams.) ; THAMES, January 3. | A boy named Adam Crabb, aged ten years, who wos camping on the coast tin* mill's from Thames, was missed yesterday ai'twnoon. Search parties .scoured tlfo bush and the seashore. His body was found this morning in a creek near the camp. The boy was a member of a camping party from Hamilton, j WEi-LIXGTOX, January 3. i Arthur McCau'.dy, a single man, aged thirty-seven years, recontiy discharged from camp, <.ied in the hospital to-day from a wound'in his throat, said to be self-inflicted.' Ho recently suffered from influenza; Mr ItiddelK'S.M., held an inquest on an illegitimate infant named Dorothy Devina Conrad. l>r. Fyft'e, who made a post mortem examination, attributed death to inanition. Evidenco. >vas given to the effect that the child wa& given to an eighteen-year-old sister of the | mother's to look after. The Coroner said he doubted if the child had had | the attention which was said to have been given to it. Ho did not believe | some of the evidence. The verdict was :hat the child died from inanition, but whether that was through carelessness or not ho could not say. It looked as jf the child had not received tho attention it should havo had.