ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1758, 24 May 1913, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

YOUTH SHOOTS HIMSELF. A youth named Pye, ft cadet in the Postal Department, was found last evening in his bed in a house in Herald Terrace, Berhampore, with a bullet wound through his body. The . police state that it appeared, that Pye had shot himself with a magazine rifle. It seem 9 that he then went to bed, where he waa found at about 7 o'clock in the evening. Ho is now in the public hospital. The case is not thought to be dangerous.

SUICIDE OF A SEAMAN. Yesterday morning Dr. M'Arthur, S.H., held an inquest concerning the death of Henry Daniels, a fireman on the steamer Moana. Evidence was given to the effect that early on Thursday morning Daniels was seen by William Good, a seaman; who found nothing strange in Daniels's manner. Ten minutes later, however. Good beard certain sounds and on investigating he discovered Daniels with his throat cut. The verdict waa to the effect that deceased committed suicide by cutting his throat and that there was nothing to show in what state of mind ho was when he committed the deed. SEAMAN OVERBOARD. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) \ ChristchurcH7"May 23. The Federal-Shire steamer Dorset, which arrived at' Lyttelton. from, Sydney-this morning, reports i that ■an able seaman named David Crockett, aged twenty, belonging to London, was lost overboard on Monday, last during heavy weather. Crockett was washed off the deck by • a huge wave. ■ Lifebuoys were thrown out, and the Dorset put back nnd cruised round for an hour, but Crockett was not seen again.

STEUCK BY AN ENGINE. Napier, May 23. At the inquest regarding the death of James Olliver, who was killed at a railway crossing yesterday afternoon, a,' Verdict of accidental death was returned. The evidence showed that as deceased stepped into the track the ongine struck him, and he died instantly.

DETERMINED SUICIDE. ' Ashburton, May 23. Joseph Walter Stephens, about 35 years of age, a blacksmith, was found drowned in the Domain baths at 8.30 o'clock this morning.. The deceased, who is a married man with three childrgh, left a not® in bis shop, which, together*with a quantity of strychnine fonnd in a vessel near the body, points to the case being one of determined suicide. POISONED BY COAL GAS. Auckland, May 23. An inquest was held to-day upon Charlotte Sav and her 18-months child, found asphyxiated by gas yesterday. The husband, Henry Alexander Say, described tho finding of the bodies, stating that there was a blanket over his wife, and a gas tube leading to a bracket, with one end under the blanket. When the child was horn tho mother was very ill. the near approach of another confinement seamed to depress her and fill her with dread. A verdict was returned that death was caused by coal gas poisoning, selfadiiiinistcred by the woman while ot unsouiid mind.

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