ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2649, 21 December 1915, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

■ —» two inquests; ' . —■ ■ iMr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., held twp inquests at the Wellington Hospital on • ; Saturday morning,/when the)pohce were represented by ■ ifenior-Sergeant Mulla- - ■ ney. 'The- first!-:ihquest.'concerned the •' j death of Herbert'iHenTy Hobday, a youth ■ 17 years, :of agej.' who ; died on Wednesday ;as the result, of a bullet wound . inflicted. . ;The evidence of the family, -was ;.tb ithe effect that the boy had'ibeeu rin the habit _o2 going in and' out ;of hi§ v ;bedroom win-< dow. On- ;this ' occasion ,be 'evidently slipped when;: going out';of.tTie window, holding .in his hand a 'revolver, which lie-used, .in shooting: at rats':;-The Coroner found that ; death was caused by shock and hemorrhage due .to a bullet Wound ill the head accidentally received. , The second inquiry, which was only partially heard, concerned ■ the' death! of Mrs. Marjory Mitchell, who died at tho Hospital on December 15, follow- : ing injuries sustained in a train aceP dent at Petone on December 11. Med- ■ ical evidence was heard, death being, ascribed by the Hospital surgeon to inflammation of tho brain due to concussion. The inquest was adjourned to Wednesday next at the courthouse, at • 3 p.m. KILLED BY; 'AN EXPLOSION, (By Telegraph.—Press Associations Gisborne, December 20. . , Robert Russell, employed at Nelson' ,' Bros.' freezing works, was killed by an. explosion of the hydro extractor in the ; fellmonger.v department this morning, pieces of 'the cylinder mutilating tha body. YOUTH ACCIDENTALLY KILLS HIS . BROTHER, Hastings, December 20. ■ Arthur Kessell, a son of Robert KeiH j sell, accidentally; shot dead his three* I year-old brother yesterday mornings r The youth had been shooting hares, . and in getting into a , motor-oar hia . Winchester repeating riflo went off, the . bullet penetrating the forehead of the i child, which was sitting in the back sea# j between its mother and Mrs. Bevan. FOUND DROWNED, i (Special Correspondent.) Mastorton, December 20. \ At 'the iilques£ on tho body of tha late Mrs. Payne a verdict of found drowned was returned. The deceased . had resided for thirty-five years in Mas-" terton. She leaves a family of four eonS t and two daughters. 0 ■ Tlie Lvnll Bay section of the National 1 Reserve "held its usual weekly parade! '* on Thursday evening under the com- . ,mand of Captain Hackwortli. The unit s was exercised in platoon and section] 1 j r ill for an hour, and at the close oi! i the parade, Sergeant-Major Lang im structcd the members in signalling " drill. This branch of the instruction! is to have nuicli more attention in fu--0 turo. Owing to tho Christmas holidays s this section will not parade again until ; I Januarv 12. It is to be hoped that 1 after tlie holidays the men of Lyall Bay, 1 will recognise the importance of attendo ing the drills more regularly, to brintf 0 the unit up to a 'higher standard of proficiency. A shootins match has been - s arranged with tho Brooklyn platoon, tot ® bo fired off on the Lyall Bay rango on! . Saturday evening. ! We direct our readers' attention to th« advertisement in our columns by Messrs, 1 Burns, I'hilp, and Co., Ltd., calling nb . tention to their' Pacific Island and rounds , thc-world ■ tours, whioh should be of in-i , terest to those contemplating a tour with' . the maximum of comfort at the minimum , of expense. 1 . For Brcmolii&l Coughs and OoMfl, v Wood'Qrooi PeoDSwnint Cure, Is, fld.