ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
A SOLDIER'S SUICIDE. A soldier named John William Dixon, ■ who came from Bunedin, and who belonged to D Squadron, '9th Reinforcements, committed Buicide in Trentham Hospital on New Year's morning! Dixon, who was about 35 years of age, had an apoplectic fit some days ago, and was sent into hospital. At about four o'clock on Saturday afternoon the hospital orderly went to get Dixon a cup of coffee, and on returning some minutes later found that Dixon had hanged himself in the ward room, being then quite dead. At the inquest the Coroner returned a verdict that deceased committed suicide by hanging whilst of temporarily unsound mind, no blame being attachable to anyone. BODY FOUND IN THE HARBOUR. The dead body .of a soldier was found floating off the end of Miramar Wharf, Evans Bay, yesterday. ' Amongst papers found in the pockets of the deceased's uniform was a camp pass bearing the name "F. T. Patterson, New Zealand Rifles." Constable Hickey removed the body to the morgue, and an inquest will beheld. ■ ■ '/
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2660, 4 January 1916, Page 5
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175ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2660, 4 January 1916, Page 5
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