ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1820, 5 August 1913, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

TOTALISATOK PROPRIETOR, MISSING. (By TelejraDh—Prcos Association.) Wanganui, August 4. Mr. .Frank Neyloa is missing. He returned on. Saturday after a fortnight's visit to Wellington. He retired to bed very early, and at 7.30 in tho evening ho arose, and, dressed only in pyjamas, went outside. Tho family soon became anxious at his prolonged absence, but np to tho present no trace of him has bean found. At 'tho time of his disappearance he was nervous, okd though there was nothing to indicate that ho intended to commit suicide it is feared that lie has cot into the river. Noylon was very well known, being one of tho proprietors of tho totali9ator on this Coast. POISON & NIGHT IN RAIN. Auckland, August 4. An inquest was held yesterday by Mr. E. C. Cutten, S.M., concerning the death of an old man named Conrad Horatio Whitehall. Deceased was found lying, wet through, in a market garden off Stanley Street on Saturday, and taken to tliie"Police Station. , Dr. Coldicutt, who was callcd in, ordered the removal of tho patient to the hospital, whero ho diiod during the same everting. Before lie died he told Dr. Ardagh that lie had taken lysol, diluted in water. Tho postmortem examination showed that death was duo to exposure and lysol, It was suggested that tho effects of the lysol had made the man unconscious, and that was how ho oaine to spend the night in tho rain. A verdict in accordance with the ovidonco was returned. RESULT OP DESPONDENCY. Auckland, August 4. A trimmer named Harry Buss was found in bed yesterday morning with his throat cut. At the foot of the lied lay an open razor. Dr. llopo was called, and after putting in some stitches had the man sent to the hospital. The mail's.■ discharge was found, and this gave the name of Henry Buss, aged 37, and his nationality was set down as German. Tho unfortmnate man had been residing at the boardinghouse whero the occuurence took plaeo for a little over a week. On Saturday lie asked if ho could stay on for another week as ho was out of work. Ke was told that ho might stay for a day or two. Tt is thought that he tool; his life in a fit of depression. His condition at the hospital to-day was much about the same as when he was admitted. GIDDINESS & FATAL FALL. Auckland, August 4. A widower named Henry John Pilolier, aged 78 years, fell downstairs yesterday at his home in Now North Mr. E. C. Cutten, S'.M., later in. the day inquired into the circumstances. _ who was-vary feeble and practically blind, got out of bed <arly in (ho morning for a drink of water, and fell down some stairs just outnide the Toom. Dr. Kellor snid that death was due to fracture of the base of the skull. Apparently dccrosed had been ovoTComo by a fit of giddiness, A verdict was returned accordingly.