ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 528, 8 June 1909, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

• - : • ■ ■ \;" » ■ ■.■■■■-■ ■■ ■ "THE TRIGGER'BECAME cA'UGHT:" ■■■ (BY .TEflUdl'.Afii-rltftss >sSa'Uilii.(.| .'■■.-■ : •■: AuoMnnd, June 7. Charkts Riches, aged 27, employed nt Sylvia Park, OtahuhU) was accitlen'tnlly killed on Sunday, He laid a gnu down on a'dog- 1 kennel while lie released a dog, and thcii pulled the gull towards him. Tho trigger bo* came caughtj nrtd Kiehos received the full chargo'.in tho stomach, deatlucnsuilig before a doctor arrived. Riches arrived front Lancashire last November. ■ .;.

FOUND IN A DYING STATE. . . Chrlstclitircli, Juno 7, At the inquest concerning John Ernest ■\\oonrough, who was.found in a dying eoii' ditiori. .on Dyer's Pass, Road on Saturday, tho evidence of Mrs. Wdotirougii ivns to tho effect that deceased, during the past eighteen years, suffered from heart disease.' The Coroner recorded a verdict thai; deceased died frorii heart disease.

■ A FALSE, FATAL SJ El', - fclil'lstdnUrcn, Juiio I'. At the inquest on Harriet Cook, who died on Saturday from tho elfccts of falling, from an oleotfio car oh June 3, the' o.vidtiicii shoM'ed that tlip bar was slowing down to stop, wlibli defcehsad, ivho was seventy-three years of age, Ilialld h false' step, iintl fell off. The fall rendered her insensible, and sho llcvor regained colisciuiisiiess. ller granddaughter, wlio was bbiiiml her, \Vris not closo enough to prevent her froth falling. A-v6r» diet' wits recorded that deceased died from injuries received from falling off a tram in inotioh.

' FOUND DEAD IN BED. Oaniaru, June 7. Mary Kilmai'tin, a visitor to Oamafu, from Makikihi, ivas found dead in. bed on Sundiiy morning at the Junction Private Hotel. It is understood that deceased belonged to Dunedin. Sho hi\d been in Oairiaru sihee Mnrcli. An iiitjuost disclosed the cause of death to bo heart disease. A CHILD'S DEATH, A telegram received from Otaki by.lnspector Ellison states thnt.a child nnmed Lcnn Alma ,Monk, four months old, died suddenly on Sunday nighti As the doctor could not give a certificate as to. tho cause, of death, an inquest was to he hcid yesterday lhornirig! KILLED WHILE RIDING. Advice received frdni Pbhgaftia states that a .young man named Percy Devory, 19 years of age, met with an accident at 2 p.m. mi Sunday and died at injdnjglit. It appears that Dcver.V was out rilling' with a friciid named Wootens, when his horra • ft'U rtnd rolled on him. Deceased was working fdr Air* Newniaii, a settler at.Waionei ,