ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 217, 7 June 1919, Page 8

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

DEATH FROM POISONING. Yesterday afternoon, Mr. F. V. Frazer, S.JI.. hfld ail inquest on tho body of Hebecca l'ycroft, widow, 75 years of ago, who was found dead in the John Street plantation on Thursday. I Evidence was given to the, eftec.t (hat deceased had been suffering from illhealth for some tiuie. Shu had resided with her married daughter at No. 13 John Street. 'On Thursday morning she went out for her walk as usual, and failed lo return. ' '

Police-const able J. Walsh said that ho found the deceased lying dead in the John Street plantation on Thursday at 12,311 p.m. Neitr the body was a bottle containing poison. Ho removed tho body to the morgue.

Tiie coroner found t lia ( f lie deceased died as a. result of the. effects of poison, .self-administered, whilst in a condition t)f extreme depression, due lo ill-health.

PTOMAINE POISONING. by Telegraph-Press Association. Christchurch, June G. The inquest was resumed to-day into tho death of Mrs. Mary Theresa William*, wJurdied on May 110 from supposed ptomaine poisoning. Tho Government Analyst gave evidence that tho meat was perfectly wholesome. From his examination he was of tho opinion that tho food (pressed beef) decomposed in the body of deceased after being eaten, tho decomposition boing due to tho state of deceased's intestines. The following verdict was returned: "That deceased died ptomaine poisoning, brought on by eating pressed heef which, bv reason of hor state, she was jncapablo of digesting.Tho meat, itself was quite wholesome, and would have been innocuous to a hoalUty person." ' MOTOR-CAR FATALITY. Christchurch, .Tune G. At an inquest at llawarden on Uephzibah Kennedy, a three-year-old girl who was killed in a motor-car aceidont ou June I, 11m evideneo showed that deceased's fathor, who was driving, lust control of the car. Owing to a rod supporting Iho front axle collapsing, tho car swerved and. overturned. A. verdict of accidental ddath was returned.

CYCLIST IJIBS FROM INJURIES. Palmerston North, Juno fi. A man named Alexander Caliill, agoil 34 years, died at the. Hospital -thin morning from injuries received in a cyclo accident at Foilding last month. Deceased leaves a widow and live children, .DEATH FROM POISON. (By Telegraph-Press Association,) Invrecargill, Juno G. Thomas Boyle, a widower, agod 18 years, died at thu hospital as tho rosnlt of poison, solf-administcrcd, on Juno 2.