ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 670, 22 November 1909, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

SHOOTING AT KArWAfeEA. *'' , CORONER'S VERDICT. • - . Dγ M'Arthur, SM, hold an inquest at the • oa Saturday morning on tho body of i A** Koherts, who waa found on Tuesday wjt.ou tho hills v near Jfaiwarra, with, a bullot wound m his head, and who subsequently suc.- , euinoed. ; John Pitzgerald, labourer, said the deceased nan , shared a room with him in Cambridge .jWrrace, nhero hn first met him on I'nday, 12. Witness wai m deceased's company 3OYoral times during tho follpwmg days, Ow \bat saT him alivo en tho Tuesday morning, when -witnesi left the house ate3oa.m, leaving uecewed m bed They had had drinks together on ,tho Monday evening, but deceased did not appear to bo the worse for liquor. Deceased flaH'aaid ho came from Christchurch, and had nmi.a'wm at tho races there. He scemod to navo plenty of money 'J&mcs Henry Higginb6tham, butcher, Km*ttjra, stated that he found the body at 6 50 P'fn. on Tuesday last on tho hills between Kai<yMra, and Ngahauranjia, about half a mile irom tho Hutt Road deceased was lying with °ne M on either •side o* tho trunk of a standingi tree. Witness saw that ho wa? alive, for ' s?j ßto4nct ' anll move< l one leg a little Witness did, not speak to him, but went and brought ™ brother and brother-in lrw r -nho neic about naif a milo away. Witness knelt alongside do ceased, and noticed a ilnsk lying beside him, epntaihing a little whisky He also' noticed a cattndges almost under his ear. Witness wweqtlentlyjgot a horse apdj communicated with (ho police. - ' r '-' Detective lewis said thit he went out with Actlhg-Dotectivo Cameron and Constable Wado to thooliico where deceased was found, and Was guided to tho spot by the last witness Dejoased was lying unconscious and nounded in , tne lorehead, biit was breathing regularly and strongly, and his pulse na* strong enough. A icvbher was found lying underneath deceased's arm Marks on the erass showed that ho had slipped down the hill aboot a foot, and thnt v/oUld iccount for tho revoher being under his h &r.n} Deceased spoko on several occasions, and sn-dre freelv when bcinjj handled. Ho made Sinlß remnrji. about his stud, -nhon witness was taking his collar off Ho did not seem to know what* ho was snying, and appeared to think JWriess was lobbing him. Hβ also e-telnimed , «6pgne mo, Odd, for takinu mv own life, and let 'mo into tho noit world " Ho used a good wafiy similar expressions. They carried him do*n tho hill to tho express on the road, and took him to tho hospital. "-Aetitig-Detectivo Cameron produced tho arti cles found with deceased, as stated abovo Ho said the revolver hud sis chambers, and contained two cartridges, one hod beon dischaiged 'and the other , was loaded Witness heard do ceased.make tho remarks.mentioned by Detcc tive Xawis., ' Constable Wade gave corroborative evidence, andAothor evidence as to tho.purchaso of the revolver and cartridges in Wellington was also given 1 ' ' , .Cqnstable Willetti deposed that ho saw do> ctoM at tho hospital on November 1" with Sister of the hospital staff, and ques tiondd him Ho said his namft was "Jack" and thlt ho was. living at 12 Cam* bridge Terrace. Tie , no bolonged to Marlhorovtflh, was a horse trainer and jockey, and had been working for a "man named Free ■ Holmes', at Upper Eiccarton, Christehufeh He paid ho had spent nil his money—about £10— in three days When asked how ho spent it e he ronhed that he dfank it. Ho added thit ho ' had ''some over for the Grand National" In answer to a question as to tho cauEO of hn injuries ho stntdd ho had fallen down and hurt j himself. Ho vvoald give ho further c^plnnatioft. 4 , Dr.'.Henry Smith, Superintendent of tho Welhnrton Hospital, described the nature of tho ' wOT(hd. Tho coroner announced a verdict of death from a bullet wound self-inflicted, . ' A SERVICE EIFLE. I,' <py Tolcijraflh-Prc«a Association ) • v ' > "Whangarei, November 20. Alfred Letfprd, hairdresser, aptod about a 7. coniinitted suicido to-day in n small room tehind by shooting himself with a service rifle. „ Financial troubles aro assigned as the Cause. Deceased, who camo to Whangarei in Fobruaiy last year from Fiji, leaves & wife andi, five children. ,\ rOUND DEAD ON-A-EOAD. ■' - ' Christchurch, November 21. I Mies Teresa rPowcri aged thirty-two years, second daughter of John Power, of ",Woodgrovo,,' Mason's ,Flat, dead on Saturday morning at four p'cloek, on the Waiwhl" Gorge Road by a shepherd named Gray ' \ • ' FORDING A RIVER, v ', ' Hokitika, November 20. Mrs' Thomas rerguson, a well-kriown settler of Mount Hercules, South Wcstland, was accidentally drowned when fording tho Mikonui Eiver on foot last night.' Tho body was.jreCPyerW, iind taken to Rom, where nn mquesf will be hold. i s J NIGHTDRESS CAUGHT FIRE. , ' Auckland, Novomber 20. ' A i two-yeor-old bov named' Roy Master*, eon Pf Mr. Masters, bootmaker, died from burns 68 the result of Ins nightdrtss catching fire. h I* " r , TOUND DEAD IN BED. , , Dunodm, November 21. A, widow named Ehra Chdvno, living at WoSgiel, was found dead in bed this mornins. When, sho retired last night sho -was apparontly in her usual state of health Deceased, was 71 yoars of ago. Aft elderly widow named Mrs Jano Barr, remdlhg at Davis Street, Thorndon, died suddenly On Saturday It appears that one of deceaseds daughters fonrnf her mother dead kJ. a llttle alhv on( > oWock. Mrs ffi,«? t f Con, Pl«ning of. palpitation of &M) y\ iv> ,° ? r l f Tee w «l» Pnor to her deathj, SMo had also been wiftering from in«f 7 a S otM iy' t Dr , A - returned h verdict, of heart failure. J ,,T I , W °»r rOnle S a t nd J a mai i ell PP e<l an(l sustained n?^t, cn . Sa , t , nrd . a J , ' 4, mfttned woman dislocated her collarbone, Sarah Ann Cope, n -f r Art 8 ' and , 9 hnrles Ashton, of Svdnoj W ankU ■ a rWI btdko and dis!6 « t '> d