ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 944, 11 October 1910, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

ASPHYXIATION BY GAS. . VERDICT OF ACCIDENTAL DEATH. An inquest was'held at the Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr. W. G. Biddcll, S.M., concerning tho death of Charles Stanley Ellison, who was found dead in a room at Staplcs's Brewery on. Sunday evening. . Inspector J. W. Ellison, father, of deceased, stated that .his son had recently been employed at the Post and Telegraph Stores at Waterloo Quay. As a result of, a severe attack of rheumatic fever.in his boyhood, deceased suffered from heart trouble. About six mouths- ago he had a fainting fit, and had been ill and away from work since Monday last. On Saturday morning Inspector Ellison, who had only returned home tho previous evening, spoke sharply to his son about not goin" oIF to work, being unaware that he had been home all the week. , The young man remained homo, all the morning, and his mother gave him dinner in his room about 1 p.m., but, later, it was discovered. that ho had gone out without touching it. His father became anxious I when the son did not return home in the evening, and in consequence spent all Saturday night and up till 2 a.m. on Sunday searching for him:, search if as resumed on Sunday, but he was unable to find deceased until Sunday night, when Mr. O'Connor, caretaker of Staples's Brewery, reported that ,the young man was lying suffocated in a room in tho bottling store. It appeared that deceased had worked in tho brewery: about twelve months ago, and knew that one. of the men was in the habit of keeping bread and butter there. The indications were that the deceased in cross-, ing the room to get ito tho bread and butter hail knocked tho rubber tube off a pipe supplying a heater, and so the gas had escaped and had suffocated him. Tho body was not cold when discovered by the caretaker, but the pulse was imperceptible, . and artificial respiration failed. ■■' • Dr. Izard stated-that the condition of deceased was consistent with gas poisoning. The cause of death was asphyxiation by gas. '•'■"' A verdict was returned that death'was' due to accidental asphyxiation by gas. jv WOMAN DROWNED IN A WELL. '~ (By .'TclcgTaph.—Press,.;Association.) . '.■■ '•'.-. Auckland, October 10. Mrs. Dawson, widow of-the late Colonel, Dawson, aged 55, was found drowned in a well near the back door of her residence this morning.. She. suffered from, influenza recently, •> which left her. de-pressed,-but there, was nothing in her demeanour' yesterday to ; suggest; suicide. Tho servants heard nothing suspicious during the night. Mrs. Dawson-had no financial troubles, and her friends are unablo to account for lior action,, ! ':' ■' '■■■>" ' - ■■- - - ,-- ,"'''" ' : 'FATAL RESULT OF, SCALDS. ■■ ~ Auckland, October 10:; '. A girl ten years of ago, named' Nellie r St. Leonard,.,- died . at; tho: hospital; yester-. day as .the result of .scalds received.on September 10.'-' The deceased .was,', endeav-. curing to open a window at 'her residence, and fell into a vessel containing boiling Water, /and was; terribly scalded. ,':'; ■" ; ?" ,;iaciai!D BY.FRACTIOUS HOESE;.., " Ashburton October 10: >' While James Burgess.'.'a, blacksmith, was : preparing to 6hoo a fractious horse 'this, afternoon, the. animal lashed 'out, and struck him on tho left/thigh. He was'removed to the hospital, where it was -found that the. thigh ;.-bone had /been broken. ' '-,'■ : , : ,' ! . : ; ■; ",■'■;'"■ . ', SUCGUMBED.' TO: INJURIES.;;,'/ , Christchurch, October 10. , . A. young-married- man, -named Robert Seal, fell off a wagon on East Belt;to-day, ono ; of the wheels running over his chest, causing such injuries as to necessitate his removal to the hospital in an unconscious condition. Ho died shortly after' admission. .-.'■ ~ ■ '■■•','-'