ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19473, 7 May 1925, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

POUND DEAD IN BEDROOM. iPw United Pbess AbsqjuatxonAUCKLAND, May 6Ernest Marshall Smith, aged 31, residing in a boarding-house, was found dead iu hif bedroom with a hall-empty bottle of poisol near by. i HANGING FROM RAFTER, (Pirn United Press Association.) BLENHEIM, May 6. Gilbert Hart, married, aged was found hanging from the rafter of a Stable in Old Renwick road, near Blenheim. OAMARU MOTOR: TRAGEDY. An inquest touching the death of an old man named Henry vyilfcon, who died afteis being knocked down by a motor oar on. Monday evening, was held at Oamaru mi Tuesday afternoon, before Mr H. W. Bundle,'S.M., coroner. A verdict Was w turned that the deceased Henry Wilton, died through fracture of the skull and compression of the brain caused by being accidentally knocked down by a motor oar. No blame was attachable to the driver of the car. The coroner, commenting on the evidence, referred to the disability from which deceased suffered and its effect, on hia sight when walking. Deceased apparently did not look up when crossing, and waa struck by a car driven by William MPherson. Tliero was no suspicion that the car was being driven at all fast. The lights of the car would not be showing over a wide area at the time, and it was quite apparent that tho old man did .not see the car.. It was a sad fatality, but was entirely aa accident. _