ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2587, 8 October 1915, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

ALLEGED STABBING CASE.

A' man named 0. C. Olark was admitted to the' Hospital last evening 'suffering from, a wound in the left breast, It_ is reported that he went to the in. 1 etitution of his own accord, and - apparently the , wound 'had been inflicted by a hatpin. It is alleged that Clark received the injury in the vicinity of theibram terminus at the 'Lambton railway' station. On' inquiry at the Hospital early this morning it was ascertained that the, wound was not serious, TWO INQUESTS. . - An inquest was .held: by the City Coroner (Mr. D. 6. A...Cooper, 5.11.) at the Magistrate's '. Court yesterday afternoon in connection with the death' of a newly-born female infant, -whoso body was found on tlio Porirua. Beaeli on Saturday morning last. In the opinion of Dr.: H. A. H. Gilmer, death had taken placo before the tody had been placed in tlie water, tho crfiif'q being neglfct at birth. There was no evidence to show how the body came to be on the beach or who the parents were,- and a, verdict of found dead was returned. An inquest was also held in co'imoc'tion with the death of Alice Veronica Doody, aged five months. Dr. (toner i considered that death liacl been caused by. suffocatiouj and ,tho other evidence i before the Coroner went to show 'that this was cause'! by tho accidental i laying of the child's mother. A verdict