ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
PULMONA&Y, EMBOLISM. CriristohMrch, March 6. "'AjvJntruestwas hold to-dav concerning the death of Geo, Edward iCollins, who died on Tuesday after being treated for a certniri complaint, with' a drug known a's "sdilvarsan," or "606." In the-courso of evidence, a medical man stated' that lie 'did' not generally regard the remedy mentioned as specially risky, The postmortem examination bad disclosed signs of old standing pleurisy. ' A verdict was returned that deceased-died from monary'embolism.
A CONSTABLE TO THE RESCUE. At about 6.25 p.m. yesterday, when the F. and S. liner Ayrshire was clearing the Glasgow Wharf preparatory to proceeding ■ to Avonmouth, a coal worker, named Robert AValUor, who resides at Kaiwarra, slipped and fell between, the' vessel and tho wharf. 'Constable Johnston,' who happened to be in tho vicinity at.tho time, -procured a. ropo off tho Ayrshiro,' and threw it to Walker, who managed to catch hold of it. . Constablo Johnston succeeded in pulling tho man out of tho water, but in doing so the officer's hands suffered severely, tho flesh of the finger-tips being'burst'opoii. Walker,.who appeared to bo none tho worse for his 'adventure, was able to proceed to his home.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2001, 7 March 1914, Page 5
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193ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2001, 7 March 1914, Page 5
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