ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 29 November 1927, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(Per Press Association). Miss Berry, matron of the I’ahiatua Public Hospital, when walking m the hospital grounds, slipped and fractured her left leg at the ankle Edwin James, aged 76, a wellknown farmer at Parkvalo. near Carterton, committed suicide last night by shooting himself in the head with a pea-riiie. Death was instantaneous. The deceased was having tea when, through the electric light, failing, the whole family had to assist in completing the milking. A younger daughter on returning to the house at about 8 o’clock, found her father sitting in an armchair in the front room with the pea-rifle between bio knees, quite dead. He leaves a widow and family of nine, mostly grown up An inquest will be held At the inquest concerning the death of W. E. McCarthy, a draper, held at Wanganui tn-day, the coroner returned a verdict that deceased met his death by asphyxiation 'when mentally unsound. Shortly after 5 o’clock yesterday afternoon the body of a man named Ben Grieves, aged about 55 rears, was found hanging in the back room in a small whare at Ncatnnn Th* deceased a well-known hnwker of drapery and lived by himself. From appearances it 1, considered that death occurred about a week ago.