ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2772, 16 May 1916, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

■ v . INQUESTS TO BE HELD. An Austrian named Josef Heim, about 42 years of age. was found dead in his bedroom at the Trocadero yesterday. Death was due to hanging. The body has been removed, to the Morgue, and an inquest will be held. '-. A child of'six or seven years of ago died suddenly on the Moeraki on Sunday evening .while, the vessel was en route from' Sydney to Wellington. An inquest will be held, probably to-morrow. A: three-year-old r child, . Winifred M'Quirk, died at the Children's Hospital on-. Sunday as . the result, of- scalds sua. .tained'ori May' 9, through into a bath of : boiling water at her parents' residence of Alpha Street. CAUGHT IN A LIFT. A man named William Sibrit, while working on the premises of Scoullar and Co., Lambton Quay, yesterday .morning, had his right foot jammed in the lift, He was. taken to the Hospital, with a badly crushed heel. Sibrit is a niarried man, about thirty-eight years of age, and resides at Johnsonville. : A MAN SHOOTS HIMSELF, fly Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, May 15. A well-known resident, Patrick M'Cann, who kept the Temperance Hotel, committed suicide at Tapanui yesterday afternoon by shooting himself. He had r been in ill health. FOUND DEAD IN AN OFFICE. - Wanganui, May. 15. Edwin Marshall, a married man, aged 28, with four children, was found this morning locked in his office.with the gas turned on. He was dead, and had left letters for his wife.