ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 22440, 10 September 1936, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING. A verdict of death from carbon monoxide poisoning was returned by the district coroner (Mr T. E. Lang) at the inquest held at Featherston concerning the death of David George Carman, who was found dead at his home at Pahautea, near Featherston, early yesterday morning. The body was discovered by Mrs Carman lying alongside a motor car in the car shed. It was stated at the inquest that the the engine of the car was running and that a piece of hose pipe was attached to the exhaust pipe, the other end leading into a milk can. Carman’s head was close by the milk can. Carman, who was 27 years of age, was a wellknown competitor at horse sports and was an accomplished rider. / LONELY DEATH. Late on Tuesday night Don Tong, a Chinese, aged 42, who had been employed by the Nokomai Gold Mining Company since last November, was found dead in his whare in a lonely spot in the back country near Garston. He was at work on September 3, but he complained of illness and returned to his whare, where he lived _ alone. During the past week he was visited by some of his countrymen, who urged him to see a doctor, but it is stated that he declined to do so. On Tuesday Ernest Mong, a miner at _ Nokomai, visited the hut and found it securely locked, and on looking through a window he saw Tong’s body on the floor. The matter was reported to the police at Lumsden, and at 11 o’clock at night Constable H. J. Thompson made the arduous journey up the face of the cliff to Tong’s whare, where he forced an entry and found the Chinese lying dead. At the inquest at Lumsden a verdict was returned that death was due to influenza. F*ALL FROM SWING. Brian Cecil Tucker, aged nine years, residing at 96 Dundas was admitted to the Dunedin Hospital at 6 o’clock last evening, suffering from a fracture of the left arm received through a fall from a swing. INJURY TO HAND. Mertyn Phonas, aged) 13, residing at 45 Lochend street, was admitted to the Dunedin Hospital at 11 a.m. suffering from an injury to his deft hand, which was caught in some cogs in the course of his employment at the Reliable Service Station.