ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 659, 9 November 1909, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

AN INQUEST. (By ; TeleernpU—Press Association.) ■.< ■ . . -Napier, November 8. j A ?l ln .l ut)s(: was held to-day touching tho death ot a married woman named Elizabeth Marsh, aged 16 years, wife of Richard Marsh. coroner, returned a verdict that she, died at Napier Hospital on Saturday from asphyxia, caused by her unhealthy condition ana the performance of an operation" to relievo strangulated' hernia, and that the operation was a necessary part of the attempt to save her life,- and was-skilfully performed. . ■- DROWNED, .i ■ '' ' » -.'ri •' v' , Napier, Novembjr 8. A Maori girl, two,and a half vcarsof aK« named- Katerori |>uriri, daughter of Hemi f unri, of Bridge Pa; was accidentally drowned l'l. a-.creolc-at Crissoge this afternoon, while ner njotner was. engaged in' cooking. i.v , ~,: Nelson, November 8. - A; male child, a year old, the son of Mr.' yscil , Hooper, storekeeper, Wakefield, was drowned .through slipping into the: river on Saturday afternoon. Ho had followed his father, and .was not missed till too late. Tho body, has been Recovered. At the inquest a verdict of acoidental death was returned. SHUNTING I EATALITT. - Oamaru, November 8. Kobcrt Stewart, a railway employee, who was. injured whilst shunting in f the railway yard on October 21, died last night; aged twenty-eight years., He was a married man;" : SEVERELY SCALDED. . ■ Nelson, November 8. . A foraalo child, aged' 2 years,, the daughter of- Mr..' Leonard Wadsworth,; Wai-iti, was severely scalded on the back on Friday, through falling into a' boiler, ivhence' clothes had j ust been taken. ' - I"■ !' ■■■■ ■■ .. ~~ , -i LITTLE BOY SUM'OCATED. . : " Nolson, November 8. ■ 1 .trie, the three-year-old son of Mr. Frank Coloinan,' schoolmaster, Waimea- West, was found suffocated in his bed on Saturday. Ho ; had suffered from a cold; and was unable to i breathe. • ■ : " - ■] SAW "DOCTOR" KILLED. . 1 Auckland, November 8, ! At' the Kauri Timber -Company's mill at 'j Whitianga a loose pieco oE timber.was thrown over the saw with 'terrific force, and struck the , saw "doctor," Harry Ej re, below the lower rib , alia penetrated the abdomen. Ha died from , hemorrhage and' shock. , , . . _ "WHILE RINGING A BULL." , Cambridge, November 8. News has: just reached' Cambridge that, Mr. Joseph Gane,. a well-known: settler connected \rith farming institutions, was killed on his farm at Kiipaki. Deceased was ringing a bull, when the animal lifted his head and the lover j struck Mr'.. Gane on the side of the head and f killed him "instantaneously. He was aged 70, ~j and was a very old settler, who; was greatly t respected. t . .. . ■■ .". , '..'t THROWN AND KILLED. f iDannevirke, November 8. ! Philip James Arnaboldi, a settler at Wober, J was thrown from his horse oh Saturday, and ] had. his neck ' dislocated. Death was instan- , taneous. At an inquest a verdict of acoidental ) ■death'was returned.': ( "SUFFOCATION OR CHRONIC J ALCOHOLISM." v '•' I An inquiry into the . death of Margaret Bain c (who was found dead in bod at her residence f in Martin Square oil Saturday afternoon) was f held by Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., yesterday t morning'.' ■ .. . . , Dr. W. Kington Fyffe, who' held a post- t mortam examination of deceased on Saturday a stated in evidence-that the condition was like t that produced by prussic acid, or cyanide of I ■potassium. The condition may have been pro- n duced by ,acute alcoholism..'Tho cau'so of death t was. either suffocation or'chronic alcoholism s After hearing evidence,'tho verdict that de- " ceased died either from suffocation or chronic alcoholism was returned. }\V- : 5