ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1047, 9 February 1911, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

A CHRISTCHURCH MYSTERY. '' WOMAN FOUND DEAD. IBf Tclccraph—lJrcss Association.) Chrlstchurch,-. February 8. The dead body of u woman about thirty-three years of age, was discovered in ft right-6f-wav off Cashel Street shortly after seven 1 o'qlock this morning. The clothing was disarranged, and abrasions on the body pointed to foul play. It is understood that the post-mortem examination will reveal that poison was administered to the woman, and was taken by h©r« Tho contents of the stomach are to be analysed. ' Thd priico state tho body was certainly not in tho right-of-way at 2 a.m. today,'and that it' was proabbly. placed there after life was extinct, after i a.m. BURNT TO DEATH. •, ■ ' Marlon, February 8 Richard Hamilton Miles, tho three-year-old son of J. n Miles, solicitor, was burnt to death yesterday, afternoon through a tin ,of bcnr.ino .catching fire and being upset over him. Fred. Avis, in attempting to savo him, was severely burnt about both hands. a masterto'n MAN DROWNED. (By Telesrajih.-Spccial Correspondent.) . Mastorton, February 8. ' A painful sensation was causcd in Masterton this evening, when it • becamo known that. Mr. J.'A. J. M'Lean, auctioneer. of' this town, had been" found drowned in tho Waipoua River. A Native named Haeta was crossing the. river when he saw a body floating in about three or four ftet of water. . Ho reported the matter to tho police, and tho body was at once extricated. Efforts were mado by artificial means to restore ahiih bathlrtg'trunks when found, 'and it,is presumed thdt he -was seiiea with a fainting,; fit whilst bathing. ; Tho lata Mr; JriAin was .St .years of age, and was much respected 'in'tlic town. He was a single lnhn. - H<> was:a native of Dnnedin, and the eldest son of Mr. LaclilanM'Lean, auctioneer, .of that citv»

WESTl'Oim COACH ACCIDENT. (By Correspondent.) Westport, F6bruary 8. '■ The Victims of the recent coach accident iave' suffered• severer injuries than were rit first .thought.' Sirs. "Morrell, who has been'-'.'the . victim - of -'several 'similar accidents, ft making steady progress, bnt Mr. and Mrs. Howarth,' of C'hri<iehurch, who were ou their honeymoon tain, seem destined-to-be for some time m the doctor's hands.' Mrs. Howarth's injuries aro extremely sevoro, and . have caused the hosDitnl authorities some anxiety. Mr. Hbwarth ha 9 not yet beeil .removed from the rcsidenc© to which he was carried after the accident, and it •is thought lie, too, will have to bo removed to.the hospital. . , .Spectators of tho accident givo great praise to tho driver, Mead, whoso coolncss and presence of mind alone prevented the terrified horses from causing a worse fcmash. ', • DEATHS FROM LYSOL DRINKING. Auckland, February 8. Ernest Maoon, -a married man, aged 32. after taking lysol at his homo at mafket, was fuund in bod at, nrjdday in great nain. llis wife sent for a doctor, but Mason expired before the doctor arrived. • THE DEATH ON LAMBTON QTTAT. EVIDENCE AT.THE INQUEST. Tho City Coroner (Dr. A. M'Arthur, S.M.) held an inquest at tho morgue yesterday afternoon touching tho death of a pantryman, named Robert PluUids, about 50 years of age, who dropped dead on Lambton Quay on Tuesday evening. SubInspector Norwood represented the polico at tho inquest. • ■ . Dr. W. Kington Fvffe, who made a post-mortem examination of tho body of deceased, stated that Phillips was n stout, woll-nourished man. Tho causo of death was syncope, duo-to aortic regurgitation, complicated by granular kidney and alcoholism. ... i Georgo Ward, expressman, residing at tho Shamrock Cafe, stated that about 5.30 &m. on Tuesday ho say deceased near oss's jeweller's shop on Lambton Quay. Apparently deceased was going to cross the street when ho staggered and fell backwards. - Witness jumped off-tho express to-assist "the man, who was then gasping for breath, and witness placed a cap under his head. Then Constable Craig arrived. 'Albert Joseph Mace, licensee of the Central Hotel, said ho had known tho doocascd, Robert Phillips, for tho. past 12 years, when employed by tho Union Company, and was talking to liirn on Lambton Quay at about 5.25 p.m. on' Tuesday, a few minutes before his death. Deceased said ho wa;. suffering from chronic indigestion, but hoped to ,bo back, .to work shortly. • When deceased left Hntness no cfossed Ovor tha road and passed Bafrett's Hotel. A fow minutes later witness saw a crowd collected just past Barrett's Hotel, and on going over saw Phillips lying on tho ground. Tho body in tho morguo witness was ablo to identify.^ William Marlow, oook, residing in Garrett Street, said ho hod known tho deceased for some six or seven years. On Tuesdoy deceased complained of acuto indigestion, and said that Mr. Brittain, tho chemist, was treating him for it. Deceased hod n brother nnd sister in I.ondon, but no relations in tho Dominion. Hecently deceased bad been residing in Dixon Street. . , , A verdict was returned in accordance ivitli the medical testimony. A single man named David John Thomson a linotvpo operator, committed suicide this afternoon by drinking lysol. Becea«ed had also inflicted wounds on his throat, but the poison was tho cause of death. Tho rea9Jn of I lie act is unknown.