ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17282, 25 September 1916, Page 11

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

SUDDEN DEATH IN TEA ROOMS. LADY VISITOR'S TRAGIC END. A shockingly sudden death occurred shortly after 1 p.m. yesterday in Mrs Smith's tea rooms, Armagh Street, near Colombo Street, the victim being a woman unknown at the time, but late last night identified as Nellie Horn, about thirty-five years of age, whose relatives reside at Wellington. She was in tho act of drinking a cup of tea when she had a stroke and an effusion of blood to the head, dying almost immediately. The body was removed to the morgue for identification and inquest. Police inquiries' last night, elicited the fact that the woman was in Christchurch on a holiday, and was staying at the People's Palace. She had no friends or relatives here, and her relatives only lately arrived in Wellington from Hobnrt. An inquest ,\vnT be held this morning. ,' ' ■ • ■ DEATH BY HANGING. An inquest was held yesterday before Mr H. W. Bishop, District Coroner, touching the death of Joseph Henry Elstob, aged sixty-five years, moulder, of 353, Rarbadoes Street. Evidence was given by the widow and married daughter to the effect that deceased about twelve months ago met with- a sbvere accident to his head which left him subject to delusions. His wife had been visiting her daughter, and on returning about 3 p.m. on Saturday found her husband hanging by the neck from the roof of an outhouse. He was last seen jilTve on September 20, when he visited his daughter. Tho Coroner returned a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind. FOUND DEAD ON RAILWAY. [Per Pr*ss Associatiok.] WELLINGTON, September 24. The body of John William Wilkins, a resident of Petone, was discovered on the railway at Kaiwarra about 10.30 last night by the driver of an incoming train. The lower portion of the body was badly mangled. It is not known how tho. man came to be there.