ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2628, 25 November 1915, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

■ 9 TWO INQUESTS/ • The City Coroner (Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M.) held an inquest at the Wellington Hospital yesterday touching tho death of John Oswald Watts, a married man, 42 years of age, who died as the result of a fall in Lambton Quay 011 Sunday. Senior-Sergeant Jlullaney represented, the police. The medical evidence showed that death was due to ! Bhock, following a fracture of the skull, and a verdict was returned accordingly. ;,"A' second inquest was'held in connection with the deatli of a- married man named William Crawford, 61 years of age, Sergeant Kelly representing the police in this instance. Deceased sustained a broken shoulder and broken ribs, while endeavouring to pull up his horses in Austin' Street on Friday last. Tho team broke away when deceased was on the footpath, and he was knocked down after he had recovered possession, of the. reins. Death resulted from respiratory trouble, duo to. the ribs penetrating the lungs, and a verdict to this effect was returned. DETERMINED SUICIDE. A married man named Ernest Morris, aged 41, took his life in a determined mariner at Horsham Downs, between seven and eight o'clock on Sunday morning (says the Auckland "Herald"). Morris, wno had been acting peculiarly of late, intimated to his,friends that he thought he was going queer in the head) and 011 Saturday evening the services of a neighbour were secured, at Morris's request, to keep an eye on him. When milking operations were being undertaken in the morning. Morris intimated to the neighbour that he had takon poison. An emeticwas suggested," but Morris rushed/into', the house, and, coming outside with a razor in Ids hand, gashed his throat. Dr. ltogevs was' hurriedly summoned," but life was extinct. Morris waß formerly well known as a builder, in Hamilton. At the inquest, a verdict of Kuicide whilst temporarily insane was returned. MOTHER AND CHILD DROWNED. (By TeleEraph.—Press Association.) Auckland, November 24. Alice Franklin, wife of John Franklin, .of Wliakatane, and her two-year-old child wore drowned at Whakatane Heads. The woman's body was found at the' base of a cliff. It is supposed the child got into the water, and the mother perished in attempting _a rescue. '' TRAP ACCIDENT. Thames, November 24. A serious accident happened on the coast road last evening, when the seven-year-old daughter of _ Mr. R-. Adams, mine manager at Waiomio, was injured through a trap falling over an embankment' 12 feet. The child's ribß wero broken, thero was internal crushingj and little hopes are entertained for her recovery. Three other occupants of the trap, including tho mother of tho child, escaped with bruises and shock. FATAL MOTOR COLLISION. Tlmaru, November 24. Hector Cox, the local manager for Booth, M'Douald and Co., riding a motor-cycle, and J. D. Grant, a Mackenzie Country run-owner, in a car, met in a head-on collision in the dust raised by another car on tho road to Pleasant Point this afternoon. Cox's skull and arm were fractured, and he died in tho hospital to-night. Grant's injuries are not properly known here. Cox canio from Palmerston North, aud was very popular in business and on tho cricket field. He leaves a- wife Riid six young children.