ACCIDENTS AN© FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1998, 4 March 1914, Page 10

ACCIDENTS AN© FATALITIES.

IBy ijioaiatiiis.) CONTRACTOS'S DEATH- ■ SWEPT OUTBY TSli. CJJRftINT. Hcskiflha, March 3. A fatal accident liappdired at 7 o'clock this" morning at the- south wall works of. tW Hokitika . Hartouc, .sftercbjrThomas. Savage, aged 45 years, ono «f the contractors, lost his footing,, ■'a.iid'j fallins; into tho ivver, Was 6>ve]tfc to seA and drowned. The present- contrctet is /.Imost completed. There was a slight flood in the rive? at file'.Um*." The body has'not yet teen rccgwred.

. SUICIDE-WHIM; MBXTALLY' . DEPRESSED. ■ ' AuoMand, March' 3 .; ' A woman named M'Lood was found dead in bed at lieT residoftce. Wakofield Street, this nWriring. She was married, but had been living apart fnnn her husband. A plan .named Woods r»* sided in the same house with her, and when he awoke at 4.30 o't'Tock this morning he found ttat Mts. M'tccd s ; as dead, evidently t!ie result of having taken poison. He reported the 1 roatleito the noliee. ■ ■ At the inquest, held before Mr. Outten, coroner, WiUiant lleuhpn Woode said that he canie • ironio atoiit 9.30 last nipthb siightfr wider tho inftaenco of liquor, fte woman M'Leqd did not. go to'bed. At ajiout- 10 o'clock sh« wont out and brought in a- coiTstaMe. 'Hβ did not knor ' why tjw» cmfetable came or how long he staved, trio went to sleep sTiortlv- aftwwards, and ditl. not wake until -1.30 B.nv He saw deceasod lying'on tho floor and found that she: was dead. He summoned the poliee. A coustaMfi-'statttJ thai he was cnTteff •in* last niqht by M'LeoA wl>o stried that her "husbantP'was "rOfliag" Tviili. Dr. Casement Aicfci:)' that death, was due to poison. Ther*we*o two' bruises on the body, ena on the hip and , ~■. ! Tlie jury returned a., verctot or deatn from' poison taken vrhite'ffieiiti\tt.y depressed. , .

FARMER COMIITTS SUICIDE. Aahburton, Marcli.3- .■ Tlio hodv of a sinfflb man iinpiwi PrecW erick William-jFtfimpto, 23 yearn of ago, a farmer at 'Wiflowfc.v, was fojinfl an apple troe' in an. oiglytrd.. nca'r-liis residence, yosteitlsty aftefnooii. A doubWiarfolM rub *as l_vir)jT liopido the bc<ly,\ awl a wound in tlio left breast was evidence ef tile caiiso of death. At tho inqnost-. tlijs morninp ! tlie roroficr njiwned n verd-ict of' suicido while teitiperarily insane. • ; -

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