ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS
Tho body of John Chaplin, aged ri*» icon, the oldest son of Mr W. 11. Chaplin, of Devonport, Auckland, who was drowned when his canoe capsized in deep water off Stanley Bay on Sunday afternoon, was fouuij floating near tho naval oil tanker Nutufa at 11 o’clock yesterday morning. BUTCHER’S SUICIDE. Gottlieb Ben, of German nationality, a pork hotelier, was found drowned in a vat of water at his shop at Martoru At the inquest the coroner said that from the evidence the deceased was apparently in financial difficulties, but there was no evidence to show the cause of his suicide. The deceased had locked and bolted the doors of his premises shortly before his body was discovered. A verdict of found drowned was returned. Ren leaves a widow and six young children. HEART FAILURE. Thomas Herbert Baxter, aged fortyfour. of Cashmere, Canterbury, dropped dead yesterday afternoon. It was an oppressively hob day, and he was burning scrub on a farm in Hoon Hay Valiev, of which ho was part owner, when lie collapsed and expired. There will not be an inquest. At the inquest concerning the death of Neill Campbell, aged fifty-seven, whose body was found on iho roadside at Morvrn, a verdict was returned that death was due to cardiac failure resulting from degeneration of the muscles of fho heart.—Waimate message.
VERDICT OF FOUND DROWNED. “Found diowned” was the verdict of the coroner (Mr Young) at the inqnset on Charles James Mahan, who was ifound dead in Lyttelton Harbor with severe injuries to his head at I a.m. on February 1. Dr Crooke gave the opinion that death was due to drowning, and that the wounds on the Lead were probably caused by fish. De-tective-sergeant Wing said the police searched the whole waterfront, but there was no trace of blood or any clue as to how Mahan got into the water.—Christhcurch Press Association telegram.
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Evening Star, Issue 19797, 22 February 1928, Page 7
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319ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS Evening Star, Issue 19797, 22 February 1928, Page 7
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