ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2664, 8 January 1916, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

POISON" SELF-ADMINISTERED,

. Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., held att inquest at the Magistrates Court yesterday touching the death of Ethel ' a Watson, a young married woman, who died at her/residence, 35 Ou eu Street, early on Thursday morning. Senior-Sergeant Mullaney represented the police at tho inquest. According to tho evidenc© of Dr. L. A. Lino, who 3iad been called in to attend the deceased, the latter stated that she had swallowed three mercury tabloids for a certain" purpose. The dose was sufficient to cause death, and tho condition of deceased was consistent with death from poisoning. The husband of the deceased gave evidence to the effect that his wife had never expressed any intention of taking .the tabloids. After she informed him of what she had done, he procured a nurse and a doctor to attend her, but she gradually sank and died. The Coroner returned a verdict that death _ was caused by poison, selfadministered, whilst in a state of tem» porary insanity. WATERSIDE WORKER'S DEATH. All inquest was subsequently com* menced to ascertain the cause of the death of August Williams, a waterside worker, who collapsed a few days ago while working 011 the steamer Ocean Monarch. _ Dr. H. A. H. Gilmer, m giving ovidonce, expressed the opinion that heart failure was the immediate cause of death. Other witnesses could not be heard last evening, and tho inquest was, therefore, adjourned until this morning. DISCOVERY IN NEWTOWN PARK, Tho body of. an old-age pensioner, named William Isaac Wilshirc, was found hanging to a tree in Newtown 1 a, "Kyesterday morning close to Russell Terraco. Deceased, who resided in Gordon Street, was last seen alive by his sou on Thursday afternoon. He >s_ said to have been low-spirited • since the death of his wife in September last. A note, found on the body, addressed to tho Coroner, contained an intimation that tho old man intended to take Mb life. An inquest will be held. COLLAPSED IN A CAB. Thomas Phelan, aged 54 years, a resident of Abel Smith Street, died in a cab on the way to the Hospital at 4.50 p.m. yesterday. Deceased had suffered from dropsy, and had been attended for some time past by Dr. Henry, who ordered his removal to the' Hospital and who will certify as to the' cause of death. ' ACCIDENTALLY SHOT. On Tuesday afternoon Mr. Tom Naylor, a son of Mr. C. W. Naylor, of Church Street, accidentally shot himself in the leg with a revolver, states the'"Manawatu Daily Times." He was just putting _ tho weapon in his hip pocket when it went off and the bullet entered his leg just above the ankle. Tho accident necessitated an operation, for the extraction of the bullet, and this was successfully effected on Wed." nosday morning.