ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2203, 16 July 1914, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

A BAKER'S DEATH. At the courthouse on Tuesday after-. noon, Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., . Coroner, held an inquest touching the death of William Taylor, a baker, aged 66 years, who was found dead in a wash-houso at his residence, No. 51 Tasman Street, at 7 o'clock on Monday morning, close to a> gasrring, from which gas was escaping. Dr. A. Perkins stated that from his previous 'knowledge of the deceased he would say that death was duo to apoplexy. It appeared to him that the deceased had fallen with the gas-ring in his hand, and in. his fall detached the tubing. Dr. Kington Fyffo said that his postmortem examination indicated that death had followed upon the bursting of a cyst in the brain, causing pressure. A vordict was returned in accordance with the medical evidence. HOSPITAL PATIENT'S RASH ACT. ,; . Napier, July 14. An inmate of the Hospital, George Williams, snatched a bottle containing a poisonous drug out of a nurse's hands and drank.tho contents.' Prompt measures wore taken and it is believed that Williams will recover. . . A LONELY DEATH. The death of George Graham, a cab proprietor, who was found dead at his house in Rangitikci Street, Palmerston North, was the subject of an inquest held on Tuesday. Tho polico evidence was; to tho effect that the deceased, who was in feeble health, was a' man of 65. Ho had apparently died a natural death. Tho house was bare, and almost foodless. Deceased had the reputation of denying himself,and living yery poorly. • A verdict of death from'natural causes was .returned. : •