ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2402, 6 March 1915, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

WOMAN SWALLOWS FALSE TEETH

When the name of Minnie M'Neill was called at the Magistrate's Court yesterday in connection with a charge of drunkenness, Inspector Hcndrey explained that it was believed she had swallowed her false teeth and she had been hurried away to the Hospital. Ho asked for a remand to March 12. At the Hospital an operation was performed to remove the teeth, but the patient collapsed while under the anaesthetic and died shortly after midday Deceased was 35 years of age. It was about 8 o'clock in the morning that she became unwell in the cells, and it was discovered that she had swallowed her falsa teeth. An. inquest will be held.

MAN DROPS DEAD-. (Br TeleEMLDh.—Press Association.) Palmerston North, March 5. A man dropped dead- on E&lmerston station at midday. He.name on. his ■portmanteau is C. J. Ward. He was evidently a passenger by the Iraia going North. SUDDEN DEATH. Dunedin, March 5. Fred. Swanwick, a well-known resident of Roxburgh, and an employee in the Roxburgh _ Amalgamated Sluicing Company s claim, died somewhat suddenly morning. He had only been on shift a short time and was working at the nozzle when he dropped dead. The cause of death was presumably heart failure. KILLED ON A RAILWAY LINE. Auckland, March 5. r A man named Patrick Latimore, 50 years of age, was working on the railway near Parnell tunnel, when he was knocked down by the incoming Rotorua express and fatally injured. He died almost immediately:

FOUR EIBS BROKEN. (By Telesrapi.— Special Correenondentl Creytown, March 5. E. Raisen broke four ribs while loading cheese at the Greytown railway station yesterday morning.