TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 May 1922, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

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j KILLED BY A TRAIN. < CHRISTCHURCH, May 16. J Earnest Arnold, a single man, aged 62, was killed at Sock bum Railway Crossing by the South express to-night Arnold, who suffered severely from rheumatism was walking across the crossing and evidently failed to seje the incoming train owing to the mist and rain. The express was 20 minutes late which was probably the cause of Arnold keeping a less catfeful watch. FI PLATAN'S DEATH. CHRISTCHURCH, Alay 16. An inquest concerning the death of Charles Clarke, aged 32, and a fireman of the steamer Whnngape,* who diipd in the ('hi istchurch Hospital on gundny. opened before the Coroner, Air AViddow. son, to-day. Dr C. J. Campbell, senior House Surgeon in the Christchurch Hospital said the deceased was admitted to the Hospital in a semi-conscious condition. A detailed examination failed to give any due to his exact complaint. lUcondition did not altjer and the doctors wore at a loss to decide what was wrong with him. It occurred to witness that he might have been drugged. The only treatment given him was for his howiels. Me died early on Sunday j morning.

Dr Roay, tho House Surgeon, oo • borated the evidence of the previous witness. The conditions of the deceased, he said, was consistent- with the effect produced by drugging.

William Alunday, a fireman on the steamer Kaikoura, said this deceased was a single mu. He was a returned soldier and had been gassed. Since his return from tho war he had liot’bfien in good health.

As a post mortem operation failed to show the cause of his death a microscopical examination of the brain will he made.

Tl’ie inquest was accordingly adjourn