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ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

DKATH OF A CHILD. . At ti'o GourthtfUso yesterday alta : neon an. inquest was held bdfore Mr. i>- (i. A- Cooper, Cormier, j concerning the death of Alary JSniiiy _ Ward, an cigh'tnveeksflld twin daughter of. Mr. 'ijionias F. i Ward, a boot machinist, residing at J Mtiii Street. Tjio ■ cvideueo of Dr. J. I H. Kemp was to'the effect that he was j ■called iii after the d'catli <jf the ehi'M, \ mi Sunday niornitiE, but that Ire Jiad! seen it- previously, when it was suffering frora a rupture- and ftattileiit indigestion. The only, cause to which he could attribute death was heart, failure, duo to flatulency. The father stai-; or], in his evide;H'u, that about ;i a.m. mi Sunday, lie- gave tlio. child soi'r.o. liquid food and it went ta sleep short- : ly after. . "When'witness swoko At. lAS ■. fl.m, tlio chile! showed iio sign e'f life. The other twin bad foe® given same liijui.fi food at tho samo .tiftre as the dcreased child, A vardifit was returned to the effcet that fte deceased died from' lieart- failure. The' Coroner added that in his opinion the child had he.cn properly tared for, DEATH BY POISONING. The District. C-Qfoaen (Mr. W. G. Riddell,: S.M.) held an inquest yesterday at the' Courthaua©' Con : ge?iling tie death 'of Elice Alice Qraborsi, which took place at Jjj'ait Bay «n Stuway last, 'l'ht! evidence of the husband rf the deseaseit, and also' tie ..deceased's' sister, was t<» the effect that tfc'o deceased, who hud been married seven years, was 26 years of ago, and had lived on affcetiohate terms, with her- husband. About tltrce weeks prior to her death the deceased had undergone an operation for some internal trouble, and dining tie fe\\" days prior to ..'her death she had been very depressed. Oil Saturday and Sunday .she tfts, tiiisbiG to take food. A bottlo was found i& 1 a drawer, and tho inyoi.ee was found in a coat pookufc of deceased, but neither the husband nor the sister had eveir seen tlio bottle, and had iio idea that, tile deceased would act. as she had done. About dinner-timo oil Suftd&tf she- lay down, and Wrjjieii her husband visited her an hour later sta> wis in a stat*! 'of collapse. After tho medical evidence had been called; a -verdict that. tBo deceased bad died from tho effects of. >poison, eclf- : administered during &' pofiod. of depressionj was returned. '

LAMBTOX SHUNTING FATALITY.Tho inquest fin i'lie brick of the railway shiftier, Andrew Mows,' who was killed in an accident at the Lsiftb't'oii. .railway yards on. Monday night, will be ncld at thij Courthouse ait •! p,in. today. JIOTOR-C\ GLINTS COLLIDE. Dunedtn, June 30. A. youns roan narned Rvan, tie son of e farmer of Ei'kba'nk. Otaio, was found on. the Main South Road, last evening. about 6 o'clock, after lying threequarters of on .hour m a, sharp frost. Ho was brought .to. t'to hospital suffering from shook, and a broken ankle and cuts. Ho stated that when riding homo on his motor-cycle he.eatnconto colh&ion with another..motor-cyclist, ' Both wero thrown, hut iho oilier rider remounted and rodo away witliottt stopping to.JO* quire if B.van were hurt. Rvan did not know who it was.

SHUNTER LOSES A LEG. I3t Asso«l»5!o1s>) invorcarglll, June 30. Thomas Lynch, a shunter at the rails w.a;v yards, tripped, and. tlio wlieols- of a rairiacc passed over .his wglv.t le™, which had to bo 'amputated. The victim Was to havo boon promoted to iho ■ position of foreman of the goods shed , .next week, TfIOLLYMAX KILLED. Creymouth, June 304 This afternoon, a young man named Peter Ewart, about- thirty years of age, and employed as a- troll.vman at Stratford and Blair's mil's at. Pai.oa, was aeeidentalh - killed. Along with Ji mail ■■ named Ifojigoott, the deceased was in charge, of a. "rake" of trucks in n steep grade. , The coupling gave way and Hopgood failed to deceased to let. go, but ho hung on, and came away with t-ho runaway truck, vhieh shot Over this b.mk. When picked up Kvnrfc : was quite dead. Hn fcact been envpioj'ol with the. 'firm for four years and was a most, capable trollyman.

Mr. Vf. 51. acti&g*secretarv Of tllfe. Weltj-ngtoh Wharf - ' l/aboitrfefs' Union, while attending ait ■ exeeirtko meeting tost evening was tafcen-sucldou-l>: ifl. . Df. Clay Wa,s eftlled in, a:M foiiw) Mr= Cotinoil -s-u:ffe*m.g_ Ireiirt a itiiljl attacfe of ptomaine poi'sftiiiiig, and: &• dered: Jiis reifcpral to Itis.ferije

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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2190, 1 July 1914, Page 10

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ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2190, 1 July 1914, Page 10

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2190, 1 July 1914, Page 10

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