ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2421, 29 March 1915, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

SUDDEN DEATHS TWO MEN DROP DEAD. Two sudden deaths in the city wcro reported to the police yesterday. Frank Tracey, a recent arrival from Wanganui, was walking along a passage in Jew's Boardinghouse, Eambton Quay, yesterday evening, when ho collapsed and fell to the noor. Dr. Cahill was called in, and ho said that Tracey was dead, and that tho cause, probably, was heart failure. Tracey went to tho hpuse to board on February 13. It is thought that he has 110 closo friends in. Wellington, but he is supposed to have two brothers, farmers, 111 Canterbury. Yesterday morning Mr. George Reichardt was found dead in one of the bathrooms at the Royal Oak Hotel. Apparently he had gone into the apartment with the intention of having a bath, and had fallen on his face on the floor. He was in business on Lambton Quay as a music warehouseman. He was about 75 years of age. Respecting both deaths inquests may bo deemed necessary. • AN OLD MAN'S DEATH. An inquest was held before Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., on Saturday, concerning the death of Joseph James, a City Council employee, 68 years of age, who died suddenly at his residence, 55 Martin Square, on Thursday morning. Evidence was given by the widow of the deceased to the effect that when he rose on Thursday morning he had complained of internal pain. He had for three days been complaining of pains in the head. When he got up he took two pills, and then began to complain of sickness. _He took some health baits, and a little later witness found him dead outside. She sent for a doctar. , _ Medical evidence was given that a post-niortem examination had been made, disclosing heart disease. A verdict was returned in accordance with the medical testimony. CHILD DIES AFTER EATING SOAP: (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Auckland, March 27. A child named Raymond Enwright, fourteen months old, whose parents reside in Russell Street-, Ponsonby, ate soap in a bathrootii, and despite medical attention, died shortly afterwards. An analysis of the soap will be made prior to the inquest. TWO MEN FALL OVER A CLIFF. Christchurch, March 27. While on duty at the Defence electric light stations at Lyttelton to-day, Frank Olsen and Owen Carr fell over a cliff. Olsen sustained a fractured skull, and his condition is serious. Carr injured a leg. March 28. Olsen's condition was reported to-day to be unaltered. Ho continues in a semi-conscious state.