ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1045, 7 February 1911, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

A WIFE'S SUICIDE. DUE TO DOMESTIC UNHAPPINES& (Br Telegraph—Press Association.) ! Auckland, February 6. Ethel May Jackson, wife of Robert A.' Jackson, was found dead on Saturday at her residence in Bath Street, Parnell. She left the following letter:— "My husband has driven me to do this. Perhaps he will be quite satisfied with his work. He has been gains out every night. I think he forgets I am so very lonely. I. asked him to-night to come home. . He' would not come, so I. think it's better .to die." Deceased married Robert A. Jackson-' in Australia eighteen months ago. Three. days after the marriago they quarrelled, : and had failed to agree ever since. Jackson left home on Thursday, and did not return till he was informed of his wife's, death. At the inquest yesterday the evi-. dence showed that death was caused by* corrosive poisoning. A verdict of suicida was returned. •

SHOOTING MISHAP. Blenheim, February 6. Herbert Oben, a well-known representative footballer, was accidentally shot iu tho head while rabbit-shootine at Taylor's Pass yesterday. It is feared he may. lose (lie sight, of one eye. , ' LABELLED "POISON." Dunedin, Februarys. A man named Robert Hayman, age<l 23, single, was taken to the hospital this : morning, suffering from the effects of poison. About 3 a.m. it was discovered that he had taken some poisonous liquid from a bottlo marked "Poison." Serious results arc not anticipated. Haymaa lived at Dalmore, North-East Valley, " DEATn FROM SYNCOPE. Tho City Coroner (Dri A. M'Arthur, S.M.) held an inquest at the morgue, yesterday afternoon concerning the death of William Keid Jardine, who died suddenly at his work yesterday morning. The deceased was a married man, G1 years of j age, and resided with his wife and family [at 74 Meiu Street.' Ho was an engineer by occupation, and for the past lour and a half years ho had been employed in the fitting department at the Union Steam Ship "Company's repairing yards. StationSergeant Darby represented the police at the inquest. Dr. W. Kington Fyffe, who made a pest-mortem examination of the body o£ deceased, stated that death was caused by syncope, due to fatty degeneration of tho heart, complicated by granular kidney. Margaret Jardine, widow of the deceased, stated that her husband had not enjoyed good health recently. Ho complained chicfly about his eyes, and consulted Dr. llarty. about them, but attended his work as usual. Yesterday, morning he left for work at a quarterpast 7 o'clock, and that was the last that witness saw of him alive. He was then feeling better than he had been for a week. Francis Smith Phillips, fitter, in tho employ of the Union .Steam Snip Company, stated that ho had worked with deceased for about four years. For some months past deceased had, on and off, complained of pains in tho chest, ascribing them to indigestion. A few minutes after starting work yesterday witness remarked to the deceased, "You don't look well." Deceased said he had pains iu the chest, but that when he left home he felt first rate. Witness then sent for a stimulant, and a cab to send 1 deceased home, and another man telephoned for the doctor, but Jardine gradually grew: worse and passed away. Joseph atcrson,. blacksmith, in the Union Steam Ship Company's employ, also gave evidence. A verdict was returned in accordance with the medical testimony.