ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17287, 30 September 1916, Page 10

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

! • FOUND SHOT. [Pee Press Association.] GORE, September 29. J. M. Wise, commission agent at Gore f6r ‘several year's, was found dead in ,bed this morning.. , A rifle was found in tho bed and there was a bullet wound in Wise’s forehead. The deceased had been in failing health for .iome time. ' , . BROKE HIS NECK. [Per Press Association.] j WELLINGTON, September 29. , Yesterday at Silverhope Albert Edward Campion, an elderly man, was thrown from a trap through his horse 'backing into a ditch, breaking his Heck. At the inquest a verdict of accidental death was returned. j FATAL FALL FROM DRAG., Mr V. G. Day, Coroner, held an adjourned inquest at Ashburton yesterday; touching the death of William H. Brooking, who died on September 22, as, a ' result' of injuries received through falling from a drag on September 14. Evidence was given that. Brooking- was seen to fall from the step of the drag after it had stopped at the Commercial Hotel, fitter _ which he was taken to the hospital in an unconscious state. The medical- evidence was to the effect “ that Brooking never regained consciousness, and the cause of death was , effusion of bldod on the brain. A verdict of accidental death was returned. DEATH FROM HEART FAILURE. At the Christchurch Hospital yesterday Mr H. W. Bishop, District Coroner,' held- an inquest into the death Of- Mrs Margaret Todd, of Ooutts’s (Island, Kaiapoi, which occurred at the Institution .on the previous evening. ,The medical evidence showed that Mrß Todd had been operated on during July for malignant disease of the • glands of the. neck, and sho re-entered the Hospital on September 19 for further treatment. An operation was performed on Thursday for disease of the Heck and larynx, and the operation was neating a successful completion when tile patient suddenly collapsed and died. She was fifty-six. years of age. Death was duo to heart failure, associated with chronic nephritis. Hie Coroner recorded a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence, and said that the nature, of the disease wa§ such, that life could not have been prolonged for any period, .probably, even had the woman come through the' operation. J. Tarpey, who was *.Mn over by a trarrienr on Thursday evening r.t-the corner of Fitzgerald Avenue and Ferry ■ Road, was operated on at’the Hospital ■vesterday. one leg being amputated. St is still - n a low condition.