ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8836, 12 June 1907, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Press Association. Dunedin, Juno 11. At an inquest on the infant child of G. P. Campbell, Dr Evans gave as the result of a post mortem the opinion that death was due to suffocation, probably caused through the child sleeping in the same bed with the mother. The jury returned a verdict of death by suffocation, the evidence being insufficient to show how it was caused. Nai’lee, Juno 12. The inquest on Alice Caroline Simpson, a young married woman, who died suddenly about three weeks ago, was resumed yesterday, when the report of the Colonial Analyst on the contents of the stomach was available. The Analyst found minute traces of a strong; blistering irritant, but too small to identify. He suggested it might ho eantharides. Further evidence failed to elicit any information as to how poison could have then been taken by deceased, as she was partly an invalid, and there was nothing of a poisonous nature about the house. The jury found that death was duo to inflammation, accelerated by some irritant but) how obtained there was no evidence to show. CimsrcHUECir, June 12. An engine driver named Douglas Young, when engaged last night with his engine in running trucks down the railway yards near Colombo street, ran diagonally into three trucks standing upon an adjacent siding. The engine just failed to clear the trucks and Young jumped off tho engine and was crushed between it and 'the stationary tracks. His chest was badly crushed jind be was dead when picked up. He was a married man with one child. Auckland, Juno 12. Benjamin Eousell, a man about 43 years of age, committed suicide last night. Ho. was a medical man held in high esteem by a largo circle of friends, to whom- bis tragic death has caused a great shock. He had been travelling in the South Sea Islands, more especially with a view to studying elephantiasis, and had been in Auckland for the past 18 months. He was especially well known as secretary of St. George’s Rowing Club. The proprietor of the Commercial Hotel, with whom Ronsell had been staying, received a' letter this morning stating that his body would be found either in St. Stephen’s cemetery, 'Parnell, or at Orakei, and asking the proprietor to communicate with the police. Bousell’s body was found in Parnell cemetery.