ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2413, 19 March 1915, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A FATAL FALL. An inquest was held at the Wellington Hospital yesterday afternoon before Sir. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., touching the death of Walter Wills, who fell from _ a windowsill on Wednesday and sustained fatal injuries. Evidence was given by John James Ritson, 202 Taranaki Street, a window cleaner, to the effect that he was working with the deceased on Wednesday cleaning windows at the premises of Messrs. Sargood, Son. and Ewen. The height of the window from which deceased fell was about 35 to 40 feet from the ground. Deceased was working outside a window, and seemed to jamb his fingers when he pulled the window down. He pulled his hand away quickly, lost his balancc, and fell to the ground. , Dr. D. F. Myers, house surgeon at the Hospital, gave evidence as to the injuries received by the deceased. They were consistent with a fall from a height. The cause of death was shock due to injuries received. A verdict in accordance with the medical evidence was returned. FALL FROM A BICYCLE. A young man named Hardwick was admitted to the Hospital last night suffering from a fractured leg, sustained by a fall from a bicycle. MINER'TERRIBLY INJURED. (By Meerann.—Pres* Association.) Walhl, March 18. As the result of a charged hole unexpectedly exploding _ in the Grand Junction mine, a miner _ named T. White sustained terrible injuries. One eye was completely destroyed, while the sight of the other is impaired, and the law was fractured. The force of the explosion blew large pieces of quartz inches deep in his legs and arms. The. man's condition is critical. His companion, Ellery, received serious injuries to his face, while all over his body was punctured with pieces of flying quartz. "I WANT TO END IT ALL" Auokland, March 18. . Ad(i Parsons, a married woman, 36 years ( of age, whose husband is an invalid,''when talking to two other women in the 'presence of her husband, suddenly took a revolver from a pocket and shot herself in the. left breast. - The bullet penetrated about an inch above her heart. Mrs.' Parsons was removed to ths hospital, and > fatal result is not expected. In a statement to the police she said: "Oh, I think everybody is against me, and I want to end it all."

■ COLLEGE BOY FOUND DEAD.

Wanganui, March 18. A sixteen-year-old student of the Boys' College named Patrick Gordon, whose parents reside in Hastings, was found; dead in a'paddock at Putiki this afternoon, with a pea rifle bullet wound in tho head. Deceased, whj had been suffering from nervous depression, from which, nowever, he appeared to have recovered, purchased a pea rifle yesterday.