ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1880, 14 October 1913, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

MAORI'S DEATH IN TRAIN.

The inquest into the circumstanced surrounding tiio death' in a train of ai Maori named l'utara Hohai, was con-. • tinued yesterday by Dr. A. M'Arthurjl B.M. On Saturday afternoon the ■medical ovidenco of Dr. Fyffo taken. Tliis was to tho effect that de* ceased was suffering from engorged lungs and dilated heart, and death wan duo to heart failure. : i , Evidenco was given yesterday byil William Henry Richardson, carpenter") in tho employment of tho Railway Do- 1 portment, who stated that ho saw tliej deceased expire, in a carriago on thai New Plymouth.express train on Friday,) last. ;; The 1 inquiry was then adjourned sinefj dio, in order to enable tho evidenco o£| several Maoris being taken. DEATH OF AN INFANT. Tho Wellington District Coroner (Dn A. M'Arthur, S.M.) held an inquest yes-! terday touching .tho-death of an infani| in a homo. A verdict was returned! that the child died from convulsions,! brought about by natural causes, LINE WORK~ ALOFT. THE MAN ON THE TOWER WAGONI Auckland, October 13. Alfred Olney, a linesman employed' by the Tramways Company, was seri-' ously injured by tho collapse, of tha towor wagon yesterday. Olney was 011! tho top of tho towor when tho horses becamo frightened, swung round, and bolted. A suddeu turn broko tho tower: from the body of the wagon, and it fell to tho ground, Olney being pinned underneath, sustaining several cerebral injuries. His condition is critical. SOMBRE AFFAIR. END OF A "WRETCHED LlFE.**' Blenheim, October 13. Alfred John Berry, a single man, a; labourer, aged about fifty-four, fatally; shot himself in the head witli a revolver on Saturdayv Ho left a letter in which ho said ho was doing tho deed to end a wretched life and in atonement for boing instrumental in getting a poor tho West Coast put in a lunatic asylum iivo years ago. At tho inquest a verdict of suicide whilst temporarily iiißane was returned." GORE FATALITY. Core, October 13. Alfred Iloah, a veterinary surgeon ati Goro for thirteen years past, 1 was found, dead in his cottage by the police yesterday afternoon. Tho cause of death is boliovcd to bo heart failure. DEATH WHILE FISHING. ' Foxton, October 13. William Edgar, aged 40 years, a mar- . ried man with a wifo and two children, expired suddenly _ yesterday morning'; whilo netting whitebait alongsido tiiO; "wharf. Deceased was sitting down: holding tho pole of his fishing net and : was speaking to two men on tho bank when ho fell back and expired. An inquest will bo held to-day. LITTLE BOY & GUN. Stratford, October 13. Allen James Barlow, aged nino years t , son of Mr. James Barlow. Whangamo-. • mona, accidentally shot himself while, playing with an old gun at a neighbour's house on Saturday.