ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2337, 19 December 1914, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

'A' DETERMINED SUICIDE. (By lielogrAph.—Presa AwociftttonJ _ Pahlatua, December 18. r A determined suicide is reported at Pongaroa. A young man named Illingsworth, said to ho well connected, but who was lately offered employment on a farm at Mara, was arrested for vagrancy. He tore his singlet in the lockup, put it through the observation, hole, attaching it to a bolt in the door" and evidently thea put his head in the noose, twisting his body round till he strangled himself. At tho inquest a verdict of suicide whilst temporarily, insane was returned'. MAN SHOOTS HIMSELF. Auckland, December 18. John William Briggs ; aged 46, a. married man, and a resident of Hobson Streot, fatally shot himself at the rear of a boardinghouse this evening. Ha had been distressed on account of ths recurrence of a trouble caused by injury received in a sawmilling accident, four years ago. DEATH FROM HEART FAILURE, An inquest was held by Mr. D. G. Cooper, S.M., yesterday into the death of Louisa Hazcfl, a married woman, wbc died, suddenly in Riddiford Street or Decomber 16.. , A verdict, was returned by tho coroner in accordance with the medica' testimouy of Dr. King, that deceases had died from heart failure.