ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 7, 3 October 1919, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

DEATH FROM POISON. I R'y-'l'elecr&Dii—PrfcK* 1 Dunedin, October 2. A married woman named Margaret Sullivan, JO years of age, employed as a cook at the Captain Cook Hotel, was admitted to the hospital at 6.30 to-night and died at 10.15. It is understood that death was caused by taking poison. LITTLE GIRL KILLED. Christchurch, October 2. A girl, two and a half years of age, named Sedgley D. Malmanche, was killed to-day in front of her home in Clara Road, St. Albans. While playing in tho streot she was run over by a spring dray and died a few hours afterwards. DEATH IN A POLICE. CELL. ■ By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, October 2. Roland Bell, aged 39, who had been arrested for drunkenness, died in the polico staliion oells, presumably' from consumption or heart disease. FATAL FALLS. Dunedln, October 2. Alexander Murray, aged 08, of Port Chalmers, died in the Duncdin Hospital from a fractured skull, tho result, it is understood, of a fall from a vehicle. James Parker, aged 35, a single man, fell from a haystack at Tuapeka Mouth last week. A fork which ho was holding inflicted a wound in his groin, and ho died at Dnnedin Hospital to-day.