ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1995, 28 February 1914, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(By Megraph.—Pirosji AssocliVlM.) SAD OCCURRENCE.. Auckland, February 87, An inquest was held this afternoon concerning tho death of .Lucia llaca'iister, a young married woman, was found yesterday floating close to tho rocks near tho Takapuna Wharf.

Athoi Macalister, a gunmaker, said, that his wife had s.ineo August last resided with Mrs. Singer, at Takapima, He eamo ovct to see his wife on Sunday last,, when she appeared to be despondent. ShexM hot complain. A month ago a child was boru, and since then her health had becji apparently good. Witness inquired tho cause of her despondency, but his wife did not givo any reason. Sho was to havo gone to live with liifti in Auckland, and ho knsw of no reason why sho shotiM havo goae down to tho Takapuna Wharf yesterday.

ft® coronsr returned a vordiet that deceased was found drowned, and that there was lio evidence to show 3aow she got into the water.

FALL FROM A DERRICK, christchurch, February 27. At the toques® on Frederick Charles Iladerske, engineer, who fell from a derrick at Springfield on Wednesday, a verdict was returned of accidental death.

RAILWAY YARD FATALITY, Ounodin, February 27. An' inquest concenimg tho death of Peter Mitchell, a railway employee, 70 years of age, who fell from a railway truck' on Tuesday, was held • to-day. John Gibb, who was working at the trucks at the time of the accident, said. that ho saw deceased in the act o£ falling from a'wagon. It was'deceased's fluty to cover the trucks, and, .evidently, as ho was starting i to puji.-a tarpaulin on a truck hs slipped and fe'.-

A verdict of accidental death from internal injuries «ra| recorded, no blama being attachable to anyone.

OLD MAN FOUND UNCONSCIOUS. An old age pensioner named _ Wm. "Wilson was found unconscious in his wlutro.at Tawa Flat yesterday morniag by a post-hoy, and brought into town, and admitted to the Hospital. Ho is 73 years of age.

YA.RDsIIAN'B SUDDEN DEATH ■ Dunedin, Fohruary 27. While-engaged at work at Michel Bay to-day< Charles Haywood, employed as a yard-snjan by the Gi'een Island Coal Supply Co., died suddenly. De-teased, who lived at North-East Valley 4 leaves a widow and a grown-up family of eight.

A DOSE OF POISON.. Duneciin, February 27 William Cou-ttsj agsd?4 years, was admitted to the hospital this aftcrr.cop. suffering from a dose of poison. Ho flied about 3,30 p.m, He was a widower, and resided in Castle Street. It appears that lie ihferm-ed his daughter that ho had taken poison, which had been toed for killing insects.; Ho was taken to the hospital immediately, but efforts to save his life.wore fruitless. It is not known whether the paison was takes accidentally Or otherwise.