ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 396, 4 January 1909, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

HOTEL PORTER SHOOTS HIMSELF: : CBt TELEGEAPB— PRESS ASSOCIATION.)..■','. ■ . -■ Napier! January 8. Joseph Woostor, aged about -30, employe! as night porter at tlie Caledonian Hotel, NaV g'er, committed - suicide early this morning, e was found at about 6.80 a.m. in one of the armchairs in the.sitting-room, .quite dead, with a bullet wound in his forehead, holding a revolver- in -his right hand and a oigarettr ;in the other, He was a sober, steady, reliable man. His wife lives in Blenheim. Therf, is no-family: '7 ■■ '■■' ._ ■;■-'- ' : ' : ;': : , A WALK THAT ENDED FATALLY. . (BI TEMSGBAPH—PKSSS. ASSOCIATION.)- ■."■-■'. .'■'.. .Dunedin, January. 8. A man named John Smith, a widower, 1b ■years'of-age, fi.ixmiller at Waihola, died suddenly at Romahapa yesterday.•; Ho went to Romahapa on. January 1 to stay with- a friend, 1 and on Saturday went out for a walk by himself. > In the'evening he was found in 'an unconjeicnis and dying condition in the bush,- arid he oxpircd about ten. minutes; later.' Deceased lias a daughter and two sous in In» vevoargjU. Death is.supposed to be duo :. t/" ; apoplexy. '-'/ .-,. V' .. : .'•':... ... -.;'.7DEATH OF A DOCTOR, / (DY TKIXGBArU—rIttSS ASSOCIATION.) : Aiicklanfl, January 2. 'Dr. Orford Jones died last night, appar* ;ently as the result'of an overdose.of morphia. An inquest was .opened this morning, and after evidence -as •: to '.■identification was an!;journod till January 13. ,•-.:.• ~ : : SUDDEN', DEATH AT KAIWARRA, Adam M'NaV,' formerly an engineer, but. ■for the last 14 years unable to work owing to bronchitis and asthma, was found .dead in hifbed at No,-8 Pickering Terrace, Ivjiwarra, al 3 p.m. yesterday.: Dr. M'Gavm found that;■ death was due to natural causes./. The deceased, who was 60 years of ■ age, loaves a widow, who was residing with him at ls,aiwarra They arrivpd from Sydney some nine months ago. It is" stated that while in Aus-: tralia the deceased suffered from nunor's complaint. It is-not vet known whether an inquest will be held. ' . . .-.,.■..