ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 183, 29 April 1919, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

YOUTH DROWNED. 3y Telegraph—Press Association. Whangarei, April 28. A youth named Cecil Edward Gillett, seventeen and a half years of age, was drowned in the AVairua River ycterday morning. With three others he was skylarking in an old Maori canoe, which capsized. Gillett was unable to swim, but liis '•oilman ions r"aohed the shore safely. The body has been recovered. ELDERLY MAN'S SUDDEN DEATH. Hamilton, April 28. An elderly man named Georgo Russoll Fettom, a. bricklayer, who lived at Onehunga, was chatting with his son on the river path, when he suddenly expired. Death was due to natural causes. MAN HANGS HIMSELF. Christchurch, April 28. George Dale, aged Hi. a carpenter, married, and living at Sydenham, hanrjed himself on Saturday by attaching a piece of thin rope to the back of a door in his house. He had suffered from great depression, and left a letter indicating that ho intended to commit suicide. At the inquest thecoroiipv found th.it Dale committed suicide while in a state of melancholia consequent on a nervous breakdown. DEATH UNDER. ANAESTHETIC. Dunedin, April 28. An inquost was begun to-day into the death of Annie Tonner, a single woman, aged 27, who died in the Dunedin Hospital in the nreliminary stage of an operation for the removal of an abscess from the left lung. After hcarinir medical evidence, the coroner said that for the benefit of all parties, where death occurred under an anaesthetic, it was advisublo (hat there should be a postmortem examination. The inoupst wo"'d be adjourned till Friday to enable this to bo done. Tho coroner added 'hot no reflection upon anyone was intended. RETURNED SOT/im3R SERIOUSLY INJURED. ■ l!y Te!eprri' , 'i- n >"=i Apsocifltlon Christchurch, April 28. This afternoon a returned soldier named Fl.vmi fell frojii'n moving tramcar in Worcester Street, and suffered such injuries to his right arm that it had to be amputated. SCHOOL BELL FALLS ON A PUPIL. By Tclesrapli-Presi Association. Christchurch, April 28. Mary Mitchell, aged eight, a pupil at tho Cashmere Hills School, suffered scvero injury to her head this afternoon owing to tho school bell breaking away from its fastenings, and falling ou her. Tho exact nature of the injury is unknown, but her condition is soiious. SAILOR DROWNED, lly Tclccrapli-l'ri'-- ,' ■ •-■■ciatinr;. Napier, April 28. Michael Mncdonald, nn -elderly sailor, who had just signed off tho ICoutunui, was drowned in (lie Iron Pot, Port Ahuriri, this afternoon. He misjudged the distance between the railway 'trucks mid a vessel. Ho was recovered almost instantly by a stevedore named Fitz°ibJ)on, but was dead when brought on to the wharf. Tho first life insuranco company es. tablished in London in 170G, insured at uniform rates persons between 12 and 44' years of age.