ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 49, 21 November 1919, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

DEATH UNDER ANAESTHETIC. Br TileerttDU— Fre»« AiiocUtlon. Auckland, November 20. A young woman named Edith ICa'therino Philson died under an anaesthetic in a private hospital while undergoing an operation for appendicitis. The medical widcnco at the inquest was that death lfad been caused by an idiosyncracv of the heart that rendered the patient liable to ether poisoning. A verdict was returned accordingly. SHOOTING ACCIDENT ENDS ' " FATALLY. At 4.45 p.m. yesterday David Gray, foreman in the service of the Blackball Coal Company, who accidentally shot himself in the head on Tuesday last, died in tho hospital. The deceased was found on the road between 'Porirua and Titahi Bay with a serious gunshot wound in t.he back of his head, and was removed' to the hospital. It is not known how tho accident happened. FALL FROM A HOUSE. A man named Charles Sf'Kelvie, who' resides at South Ivarori, was admitted to tho hospital yesterday at 4.30 p.m. suffering from injuries to his face. Tho injured man was riding a horse along the Hutt Road when, the girth broke, and ho fell to tho roadway, receiving inwhich resulted in nis removal to the hospital. BODY FOUND IN A WELL. Dunedin, November 20. The body of Mrs. Dunn, aged 52, wife of Georgo Dunn, oarpenter, was found dead in a well at Kaitangata, near her residence, at 7.50 a.m: to-day. Death is ' supposed to bo accidental.