ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1297, 28 November 1911, Page 11

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

SWALLOWED LYSOL. Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., held an inquest yesterday concerning tho death of Henry Meoch, who was found dead in his bed in tho Coffee Palace, Willis; Street, on Saturday■, morning. . Dr. "•Fyffe; who 1 had "conducted "a - "post . mortem,: deposed that' the"-6tomaoh of tho deceased contained,fluid.smelling pf.lysol. Two tablespo'onfuls. of/.lysql.-would ' be 'sufficient -to cause.death, nnd -there- wa.i more than tha.r~tjiiaritity : .£.De'alfv.". had been due , " to~ syncope-resulting "fronr a largo dose. ''Edwin. M'eech, deceased's brother, ' a compositor residing in Ohiro Road, Brooklyn, gave'evidence that deceased had been a married man and had a family. Deceased and his wife had been living apart for H months. Deceased had been intemperate iu his habits, and had had no means and no property. Edward Dodd, who lives at the'■ Coffee Palace; said' that he-had gone to call deceased on Saturday, morning. There hod been 116 answer" to "his : knock, "so he had stood on a chair and looked over the partition. ' Ho had then exclaimed: "1 think" the "man's dead."" lledicrtl advico had (hen been procured. Mr. Riddell said that the cause of death was. clear—syncope, brought about' by a sclf-adiniuistered dose of lysol. BENCH SAW ACCIDENT. " tßy TelccraDh.-Press iEsociation.v . Wanganui, November -7. While working , .i bench saw at Messrs. Green, Maclean, and Bcave-n's sash and door factory. , to-day,: a ypun? .niin named Frank M'Devitt had".-tho thumb-and all I thu fingers (save the fourth) of his right hand cutod. He was.-.takeu to-tho- hospitil, 'where' he .is. progressing satisfactorily. ..'.:■ i '.. .-■." ..QIUSHKd'iN.A:L;IFT.".'" Auckland, November 27. James Stone was crushed in a .warehouso lift U>dav. with..the result "that the base of his skull was fractured.. Ho now lies in tho hospital in a serious condition. ' ' " •'-'— ■-' : CANDLE. NEAE CURTAINS.V'"" . . ..... — ■ Rotorua," November '27. ,-.' Ella Isabella Finlayi'a"iiiarrfod woman, died at the Sanatorium last night, as the result of- burns sustained early, on- Sunday week. Her bed caught fire from curtains ignited by- a , caudlo placed top near them." ' ; : SUEF BATHING. Dunedin, November "". Roljert Ralph Jtiller, aged 16, son of Walter!' . .Millar," tram' conductor, was drowned at Ocean Beach Oil Saturday (iftornoou. Ite was surf-bathing with a number of •• other boys, ■ but" was" not .liiisscd till his clotlici : were discovered. The body has not been recovered.