ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 19800, 25 February 1928, Page 11

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

BODY IN TAIBRI RIVER. Last night the body of an elderly man was found floating down the Taieri River, near Henley, and on being brought ashore it was identified as that of Harry Watt Hanna, aged about sixty-tbree years. There was nothing to indicate how he came to be in the river. The body appeared to have been in the river about throe or four days. Deceased had not been missed, as it was thought he had left the Taieri district to seek work elsewhere. An inquest will be opened this evening at Henley. SUICIDES. A verdict of suicide by poisoning was returned by the coroner (Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M.) at Hamilton, when an inquest was held concerning the death of Bertram Martin, single, aged twenty, who succumbed to the effects of swallowing poisonous tablets while in a depressed state of mind. At an inquest at Maaterton on the body of Robert M‘Gregor, a verdict was returned that the deceased met his death from a gunshot wound in the head, self-inflicted while mentally deranged. WATBRSIDER KILLED. A Christchurch Association message states that Francis George Donnely, a ,r C d fifty-eight, a watersider, died in Hospital as the result of injuries received while working a capstan alongside the steamer Holmdale. The rope became fouled, and the hook caught his legs A MAN KILLED. Harry Lloyd was killed instantly at Morningside by falling from a road into an excavation forty feet deep.—Auckland Press Association telegram.