ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1872, 4 October 1913, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

RESULT OF WORRY. ' , DENTIST COMMITS SUICIDE. . (Bjr Tol«£T»,Dh.—Preen AewolaMon.) Christchurch, October" 3. A well-known Christchurch dentist,Harry Donald Whitehouso, committed suicide in the rooms which he occupied as dwolling-place and surgery; ,in Horcford Street, oppositotho Alliance ' .Insurance Office last night. ' He had had financial and domestio troubles recently, and,theso had preyed upon his mind, causing him to bo greatly depressed. He was in-bad health lately, but yesterday he seemed to bo brighter, and saw a number of friends during the afternoon and ovening, but when his rooms wore entered this morning bo was found hanging from the ceiling of his bedroom. At the inquest, held to-day the Coroner returned a. verdict that deceasod committed suicide by hanging himself while in a state of unsound wind. , STAGE HYNOTIST INJURED. V/oodvlllo, October 8. Mr. Norwood, the hypnotist, met with a sovore accident in M'Lean Street this morning. Tie was riding his motor-cyclo and ran into a lorry. Besides: being - badly bruised, he had his left leg broken. ; >. THE TOLL OF THE BUSH. Auckland, October 3. Thomas Hunt, a married man, aged 60, while cutting a pino tree 'at Remuora, fell a distance ef 35ft. and was killed instantly. CERTIFICATE REFUSED. Dunedin, Octobor 3. A young woman, whoso name is belioved to bo Donnelly, 22 or 23 years of ' ago, died suddenly at a boardinghouse in the city this morning. The doctor who was callod in declined to give a certificate, and an inquest will bo held. It is presumed that deceased canie from Invorcargill on September 30, and it is ■ thought that she had boon employed as a typist at Gore.