ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 19785, 8 February 1928, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

TALLY CLERK'S SUICIDE. A verdict that death was due to suicide, caused by asphyxiation from gas poisoning, was returned by the coroner (Mr Mosley, 5.M..) at tho inquest in Christchurch on Henry Harris, aged forty-six, a tally clerk, who was found dead last night in a whare in Cambridge terrace. Puzzled because slie had not scon Harris that day, the owner of llic wbarc in which Harris lived, opened the door and looked in She found Harris lying dead, and called the police. The body was reclining on a wicker chair beside a shelf on which was a gas stove. The gas was turned on. and tho windows and doors closed. The man had boon dead lor several hours.—Press Association. DROWNINGS.: A distressing fatality occurred in the Retauko River at Kaitieko about 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon (reports a Taumarunui message). A young inn ii named Donald Anderson was bathing in the river when he cot out of his depth, and was soon in difliculties. Another man, Jack Morgan, went to help him, and the latter’s mother went away to get assistance. When she returned with assistance there was no sign of her son or ol the young man Anderson. Tho bodies were recovered within 2(J minutes, but artificial respiration for a lengthy period failed. Anderson was a farm hand employed by a Kaiticke 1 armor, and Morgan resided with his parents, who are well known in farming circles. A Wairoa message states that a Maori lad, aged eight years, named Johnny Kaimoana, was drowned off the North Clyde wharf about 5 o’clock last evening. A FRACTURED LEG. George Halley, aged 63 years, and residing at 474 Castle street, was admitted to the hospital at 4.30 yesterday afternoon, suffering from a fractured right leg. His injury was caused through being knocked down by a motor car at the corner of Stnarfc street and Moray place.