ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2119, 29 June 1907, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

] Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, yesterday. An inquest was held to-day concerning the death of a man named \ Turner, who strayed into the Christ?- ' church Tramway Board’s yard one night three weeks ago and went to [ sleep against a steam exhaust pipe, and was badly scalded when steam was turned on in the morning. Evi- ; dence was given that death was due to blood-poisoning, resulting From vthe scalds, and a verdict was return- - - ed accordingly. AUCKLAND, yesterday. The body of a man named Aranuah Charles Pelley, 55 years old, was found in the harbor yesterday morning. On Wednesday night Pelley called on a doctor, but after waiting in the consulting room for a few minutes, went out, and was not seen again. When found his body was fully clothed, even to an overcoat. In the pockets were found three stones and a table knife. At the inquest the jury returned a verdict of suicide while in a ’state of unsound mind. Deceased was afflicted with insomnia and dreaded ending his days in an asylum. Frank Scopinicli, an old fisherman, living at Batley’s lias been missing since Wednesday. He is supposed to have been caught in a storm while setting nets from an open boat. Peter Moyer, another man reported missing, was last seen in a small open sailing boat-, DUNEDIN, last night'. An‘inquest was held touching the' death of Henry Garrett,?, a carpenter, whose body was found on Wednesday at Pelicliet Bay butts. Doctor Gordon McDonald deposed that a bullet bad penetrated the apex of the heart and the base of the lung and embedded itself in the spinal column. Such wound was the cause of instant death. The wound could certainly have been inflicted by the deceased himself. Sarah Garrett, widow of deceased, said deceased' bad been despondent and low-spirited. Witness did not think deceased was right even, before their marriage in March last, and latterly she thought he was getting quiter. As he grew older deceased had always bad poor health >nd had _ rheumatic fever twice. Their relations were of the happiest. Deceased used to do peculiar things and would often say bis mind was a blank. She did not’ know that her husband’s financial affairs were in . a. complicated condition until after his death. She was sure that deceased bad never kept a revolver in the house. Evidence as to the finding of the body was taken and Sergeant Gilbert, deposed as to taking charge ot it. Robert Austin, traveller, sahl deceased had never consulted a medical man and could not foe induced to do so. The jury returned a verdict) that death was caused bv a gun-sliot wound, self inflicted, when biTanly 1U a *** of tem P° r ary