ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2146, 12 May 1914, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

—■— SAD AFFAIR p DEATH Of MR. A. E. ETCHELLS. Yesterday afternoon Mr. W. G. Rid- f r dellj S,M., held an inquest- concerning !>1 tho death of Arthur Kdward Etchells, h J wlio died at- tho Davis Street Private w Hospital on Saturday last. SergcaHt « Mrdianey "ropresentcd tho police. «' Wm. Usher, trutik mainifaeturer, sf Manners Street, said that the deceased m had been his partner in business, Ho w last saw him alivo on Wednesday at aj 7.40 p.m. He had mot been in good !" health, and it had been found iieccs- m sary to place him in a private hospital. W Dr. Whyt'o stated that the patient jt was admitted to the institution, on Mon- » c day, May 4. Be was suffering from insomuia and mental degression. He was very quiet all the week, and on Satur- <? day morning he was to have been taken « out. Witness saw' him at 2.80 p.m., and he was tlien suffering .from injuries to the head. Tl'.eso injuries indicated fractr.ro of the base of tho skull. The height from tho ground to the balcony J from which tire deceased fell would bo a between 10 and fifteen feet. : e Dorothy Instono, nurse, employed at t tho Davis Street Private Hospital, said «• that slio was in charge of deceased oil P Saturday. Witness was in a room up- R stairs with deceased when ho became h ifstless. All of a sudden he caught. b witness by tho throat. Witness rang .« tho bell lor assistsiiee, and deceased S then opened the window and jumped J; out, head first. Tho only words wliich b ho Uttered were "Now nurse." He had v said this when he was getting out of £ bed. _ t, Louiso Catherine Ivohn, matron, stat- ii c 4 that during his stay in tie hospital r deceased had teen very quiet, but was a He. worried considerably a over religious matters. ii Sergeant MitUaney n:entioned that: a deceased had been worrying over the ii less of his only child, who had been accidentally killed recently. In giving his verdict Coroner said that it was a most unfortunate caso. Tho death of deceased's little t boy, wliich took place some time ago, v had no doubt affected his mind, and it c was found necessary to place him in a o private hospital, hut the nurse in' charge t had had siio reason to suppose that the J deceased would commit- an,v rash act, j 'i'he verdict must be that deceased died J at AVeHingion oil May' 9 from, injuries roeeivod duting a period of mental depression caused lay a fall from the balcony in a private hospital. His Worship, in conclusion, stated that do- v coaspd had received 6vefy possible attention and no blame was attachable to anyone.' Both the- nurse . ai;d the matron had done all that they could for "the mifortunajte patient.. . . j DEATH AT THE HOSPITAL. ' Thomas Black, chief cook of the ■steamer Whatigape, died iu the Welliiigton Hospital shortly before 10 o'clock last night. On Sunday afternoon, deceased was walking alotig tiro saloon deck of the WhaUgap© when he slipped and fell head foremost on to the main deck, fracturing his skull. He wag picked up in an unconscious c state and removed to the Hospital where I ho died hist night. ] An inquest will ho held. ■< WASHED UP AT KAIWARRA, ' The body of a man was washed ashore { at Kaiwarra ou Sunday aftefnoou. ami j the police tel tho body, removed to the '• morgue. ( This is the secoftdi tiiiideHtified 1 body which Ims been fotiii'A in tho liar-, ! hour within the past few days. The ■ lwdy found erti Suudiy was dressed in a 1 fair'lj- good suit of grey clothes. An ; inquest will probably be held this after- I noon, ■: MOTOR PARTY'S OAR UPSET. < Clirlstcliurcli, May 11. : Aii uni'ortuiiato itemdent occurred yos» ' terday to a party of Ciiristehnrch Men, ' who iu'.d motored out to Southbridge , for a ctay's shooting, ',vhilo • iisg home. Shortly before <5 o'clock they ' reached Irttell, 'when one of the back ' ! tyres went amiss. , The car turned : | sharply and capsized, and threw its four • | occupants from their seats. Three Were ! ] thrown clear, but 'William Henry Ash- ; worth, of Madras Street, butcher, was : •pinned under the car. A passing mot- \ . orist drove back to Leestoii and secured ; . medical aid for Ash worth, who. bad a leg broken, ai«l the fracture was set. ' Another member of tho party. H. : Wright, coal merchant, also required 1 medical aid, but on examination at the Ciiristehnrch Hospital later, lie was found to he suitering only fpo.m severe ' , bruises. George Lawrence, the driver , and owner of the car, and John Shaw . who also occupied the front seat, were- ' I more fortunate, attd escaped with minor injuries. ; fatal electric shock. , Kokitika, May 11. Lengthy evidence was given, at the . inquest to-day concerning tho .death o£ s Renin! Sargison, who was found dead ! in tho Boss Goldfw'ids,' Ltd., Power ; House on Saturday. j Mr. Hewitt, Coroner, delivered the foli lowingverdirt:-r'"Thatt3iodeceased was . killed by an eleotrio shock sustained > in the Kankri Forks Power House, > there being no evidence to show how s the fatality occurred." Tlio Coroner f added that the dangerous parts of the . machinery were adequately protected, i Mr, Hewitt mentioned that the fatal--1 ity was oiie of tho saddest events that f ho Jja-sl known of during his residence - iu the district and foeliftgly referred - to .tho sudden c»t;ting-oif of ; such a prot misiiig young man. i FELL INTO TORRENT, . ! plsborile-, May IX. I A man named H'eeiian, whoso Ciiris- • tiaii jUamo i.s tiuknowji. was drowned this f afternoon in it flooded .crock near l'atn--1 tairi. Ho had 'won camped with a party 3 oil • tho banks of tho stream, and, iij 3 some wanner, fell into tho torrent. ' A ■ comrade went in after him. butUiis ef- * forts at rescne. wore unsuccessful, and ]» 'ob'v rogasiied tho hank in an ox.baustocl condition. e i CROSSING SWOLLEN FORD, t Cisiiorno, May 11. A mail named Jenkins is believed to . t have been drawled in fl river sis miles p From Tiniroto. Jenkins is sapposefj to come from Frasertown, and was on his - way to Ruakituri, where ho was to ob- ■ taik empSo.vnwnt, Ho evidently did not 1 know tiic district, and. instead of usine 0 tiro svispenSiovi bridge, attompted to t. negotiate a. ford, wliicli, in the swollen stato of tho river, was qui'to impossible. " A settler lower down tho river fownd '* 'Jenkins's hack aud pack liorso in tlio stream, but, so te, there is no trace of K the rider. i k TWO SUDDEN DEATHS. " tnvercargilt, May 11. 'J Tlio deatll of Cliristina Jl'Kinnou, a, l { married woman, seventy years of ago, 5 n»ld residing -at Otara, tootc plnee m | Sunday. Death is holiever! to he due | 0 to heart disease, but an inquest will he 0 . hold. 1 Tliomas lioiieyciiurch, 80 years of .fifie, : dropped dead at liis residence, Wlit'tochape), Ari'owtown, on Sttfulay, Death J was duo to heai L failure. CAI'SIZK OF A VFT I tor,F, Invorcargill, May 11. l_ Through tho capsize of a vehicle. Jeffrey Morphew, aged fiS, a single man, was thrown on his head,'sustaining fracture <if the skull. He died a few hours t, later. f* BKI.GKOVK FATALITY. 17 Nelsen, May u. 1} l'eter Hiosii'is, a vrcll-know.ii Waiifiea 1- farmer, I'Bs'id.ing at Bclgveve, died suddenly this morniug.