ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1977, 6 February 1914, Page 10

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

SERIOUS CONDITION. John Myers, who was knocked, down and injured by .a train in Wellington ou Wednesday night,; was reported bj' tho Hospital authorities to he i:i a verv serious condition last 'night; ;

STAFF OFFICER'S MISHAP. Captain Frank 11 udsuu, of the Now Zealand Staff Corps, slipped and fell while fishing in the Karori Stream on, Tuesday last, and sustained fractures of both hones of his left forearm. Tho break lu>s proved to ho rather a. bad Olio in a part already weakened by an old wound, and Captain Hudson went into a private hospital yesterday.

THE KWiATTA ACCIDENT. Thc f inquest 'concerning tho death of Antonio Brogan, ftf Evans Bay' lto.id, Itose-iioath, who received tho wad of a 'blank cartridge in his leg at a regatta on Anniversary Day and who died at the Hospital on Febraary 3 from blood poisoning, was opened it tho Hospital yesterday morning. ' Dr. liardwiek Smith., medical' super* int-eudertt, stated, in evidence that thfeo days after Brogaa's admission to tho Hospital it became- necessary to open tho wound. Tho "patient's condition grew gradually worso -rtud ho' died oil day. . Tho inquest will' be continued this morning at 9.15 o'clock. OTJTRAJI SUICIDE. (By Tclcfffa.phi—Prqss Association.) Dunodiri: February S, At tha inquest on the body of RobMurray, \vh.e committed suicide at Outrain yesterday, the evidence showed that his health had not been good. He could not eat niucli, iind did not' sleep well. Ho had heen iu bad health for about four years, and did no work. On Wednesday n.oniiiig he Was more _ depressed, . not Slaving slept- the previous night. Medical evidence showed that tho wound inflicted was so severe that no attention could have saved tho man's .life. A verdict of suicide while temporarily insane was a returned.