CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2892, 11 August 1909, Page 33

CASUALTIES.

Edward Mann (29), a farmer, married, was engaged loading a pump at Whangarei, when he fell into the Ngunguru River, and was drowned. The body has not been recovered. The body of Henry Thompson-, a widower, aged 62, was found in Welling- j ton Harbour. D-eoeased, who was employed by the Gear Meat Company, left his home at Petone on July 17 to do som« shopping in Wellington, and did not return, j Robert Carter Dunn, 70 years of age, residing at Linwood, died suddenly on the 2nd at the residence of Mrs Restieaux, from whom he rented a room. He complained of pains in his head at times, and on the- 2nd he shut Himself in his room. Mrs Restieaux knocked at the door about 7.30 p.m., and as she did not receive an answ-er the door was forced and Mr Carter was found lying dead on the floor. At the inquest a verdict of death from rupture of the intestines was returned. The body of Edwin James Norton, aged 41, a single man. was recovered from the river at Gisborne on the 4th inst. He was seen alive last evening. Two bottles of beer and a bottle of whisky were found in his pockets. A tragedy arising out of the late rains occurred after ooie of the Wellington schools dispersed on the 4th inst. A numbei of children went to the gravel pit at the back of the school, which the rains had filled with water, and two boys got in. James Wryland succeeded in getting out again, but Robert Edward Larsen, aged eight years, was drowned. Richard Power, a young man, met with a lather serious accident while attempting to board a tramcar at Christchurch. The car was just moving from Cashel street towards the square, when Power jumped on the step on the wrong side. He was unable to open the gate and get on to the platform, and collided with a post, with the result that he was thrown from the car, and the wheels passe 3 over one of his legs. It was found necessary to amputate the injured limb. A man named J. W. Frazer met with a serious accident on Mr G. Gerard's Snow-, don Station, Canterbury. Whilst engaged in letting some horses out of a stable he was jammed against a wall, and was then knocked down and trampled upon. The injured man was sent to the Christchurch Hospital. It is feared that Frazer 's injuries are internal and of a rather eerious nature. Thomas Roff, a well-known Southland sawmiller, died suddenly in bed at Glendhu, near Mataura, on Tuesday, 3rd inst. HJ9 had complained of pains in the head, and refused to eat. He was 60 years of age, and leaves a wife and family. On the 4th inst., at Foxton, a seaman on the steamei Moa, named M. Louis, met with a fatal accident. He was returning on board the vessel after a day ashore, when he fell over the gangway into the water. He was rescued within two minutes, but his neck was found to be broken. It is supposed that he struck the wharf in falling. He was slightly inebriated. Mr James Trevor, a city councillor, and head of the building firm of Trevor and Son, feU from the scaffold on a building which his firm is erecting in Wellirgton. He fell about 27ft, and his left collar-bone was broken and his left arm severely cut, while his head was cut and bruised in several places No fears are entertained that he will not have a satisfactoiy recovery. Patrick Hogan, single, labourer, died suddenly in his hut at Edendale on the 15th. He complained to his mates of feeling ill. and before the doctor arrived had expired. j A married woman name'l Mary Walker 1 Crawford (aged 45 years) wife of Alexan- ; der William Crawford, died about 8.30 • a.m. on tlvs 6th at. her hutband's residence. | 24 Frederick street, RoJyn. Deceased had complained of a pain in the back of ' her neck, and immediately afterwards was I found King on the floor dead. Dr Miller, I of Ro«-Iyn, van called in, but could only j pjonoiiiKo life extinct. The body was | removed to the moigue, where a post ' mr.ite'A ex.'iniiuifon was made by Dr , F,v,in-. An infjiiest was held in the .".('ten: '.on before the coroner (Mr H. Y. 1 Widdow^'jn). The evidence given was , that deceased had risen and was going > about hor household duties, when =he j complained to her daughter Je«*ie in the ' bedroom of a pain in her neck. She le- j turned to the kitchen, where she was seen i to fall by a little son, Le.-lie (aged six). ! Decea.-od had not been receiving medical j attention, and had apparently been in her usual health. A verdict was returned that death was due to rupluie 01 a blood-vessel in tho bi'ain. On the 7th p. 7?mn named Frederick Cotterill wa-. kU'cd ?t the Ellen-lie Railway Station, -Auckland. He w*i< in charge of a cart, and jiu-t as tho train wps corning in lie jumped off the platform and attempted to cro^ the lines to gel to hi> hor.->e. He w t ..s caught by the tiain -nid praciir.illy cut to j'iocn-:. lie wa.~ ein]j]u\ed by Mr <Jill. of Panmuie. ! Ernest Edmond Redding (29) died sud- ' (icily at Wellin^t^n. Decea.-ed had been under medical treatment. •John Edward Robimon, aged 29 years, wa.- found dead in a kneeling porition on the lio'.r in his room in a boarding-house ! at Chrislchurch on the 7th. An inquest '' \va^ opened on the Bth inst.. but the pest nionem examination is uniiiuelied, and th*

inquiry has been adjourned till Saturday, Deceased was a brass moulder There ar< no suspicious circumstances. _ _ W. Harwood, a player in the Taieri Rovers v. Union football match on Saturday had the misfortune to sustain a broken leg. He was Union's half back, and had just received the ball.. He wa^ tackled, and slipped and fell, his leg -bending under him and being fractured. He was removed to the Hospital in a cab. Mrs Wilson, wife of Mr J. Wilson,dairy inspector at Paeroa, a.te tinned salmon at dinner on Friday In tb/2 evening, after drinking a cup of -cocoa, flia was seized with severe illness. The usual remedies were applied, but she died on Saturday morning. A young man named John Cheyne,. living in the Feilding district, was ojifc after sheep 'on the Bth, when his horse slipped. Cheyne was thrown, and was picked up in an unconscious condition^ When a doctor arrived life was extinct. The body of James Sinclair Logan, single, 31 years of age, who had been missing since the sth, was found in a creek near Tam-unvu (Hawke's Bay) on Saturday. The. deceased had tied his feet wMi rope and- bis., hands with wire, and had slid into the water A verdicfc of "Suicide while temporarily insane" wa"-' returned. Logan was some years a^o ** inmate of a mental hospital.