ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 783, 5 April 1910, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

'■: v- "swallowingU solution of ■■■'■■' '-: : ■''>: '■■•['.■.'•'■v.MATCHHEApS. ■■,"' :,-wY, ; V. ' ■■. :' r ®i *el«ranh.-Presß ./.jobraUonj'/'.'-'.. ■ -aV 'V-k '■• '■■•'- Christchurch,-April 4. ,-. At .the ■■■ inquest on ■ Mary Browne• ex-' '■'■ ir\ te °K e who died at the hospital. yesterday . twenty minute ;-,.after admission, ..the evidence of Drs. ' Post-mortem examination shdw- ■; :«d that the-cause, pf death; was phos- ;. poisoning.. A;verdict was re- ;-. . | ura€d ';. th a? deceased- committed Suicide ' ■ ■■ b frW a W. OW W .a. solution of. matches ;wiu|st.in an unsound state of mind The : ■only-explanation advanwd was that on .: one occasion the matron- was, alleged to Retold the girl that she would not be j..-: able,to,«e.her eon when he was 21 years '.._ ;; V:THROWN FROM"AiTRAP. ' ' ' i'-, : Timaru, April i. s'.V-. -While.ther were driving, homo this ■ : \ evening tho.horse stumbled'at Park Hill, and Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Ken" and child ;■'- «re thrown, ont.. Mr. Kerr was bruised .-,;■ and dazed, Mrs. . Kerr had her collar- .. bone-broken, and tho little child's face V v -was Pa'nfnlly,. cut... Assistance and medi- > - cal aid. were- ;quickly forthcoming.. , . ;;■ :-IJ:'\i'. ■■■i-GUN. GOES'OFF/ ' '\". ; - )': : ii lit; '< Blenheim) April; I. . A shooting accident occurred this morn•»S. at . Waihopai, twelve miles from Blenneim, ±red iarmar, aged 13, son of a well-known, Blenheim merchant, being shot in the. groin by a young man uamef'Nor- .-.-. man James. The facts-go far available show that James was loading his weapon -, when it went off. l''armar, ■ whose iniurv w serious,;was brought to the Blenheim . Hospital. . : ■: ■, ; ... ..- • . . • THE WAIMAKARIRI FATALITY. _, ' ■ , Christchurch, April 4. body found on the-bank of the ■ Waimakann last Friday, which is lying attho morgue,- was viewed this morning by a brother and a sister of the young • man Robert Barker, who has been missing from his home since the end of February, but they could not definitely identify the body. The clothes.and slipper which were found.some distance ■ away from the body, covered with sand, were, '• however,'identified by them as belondiiK .•to their brother. ■ ' ■■ ■■ -