ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8915, 7 September 1907, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Per Press Assiciation. Dunedin, September 6. An inquest was held to-day into the circumstances surrounding the death of a man named Thomas Murray who died in the hospital on Thursday mornmg_ as the result of injuries received by falling down the Well of the stairway in Gladstone Hotel late on Wednesday night. Evidence showed that deceased was perfectly sober. He was a man of extremely sober nature but was subject to racking fits of coughing which rendered him quite helpless at their height. Deceased was seen to proceed up stairs to his bedroom on the top flat of the building, but no one saw where he fell f r °ui ,°* how he,came to fall. It is presumed that he had an attack c£ coughing on reaching the top of the stairway, and leaned over the balustrade for support, and his over exertion in ascending the steps, together with the coughing, caused a fainting fit and ho fell over the balustrade to the bottom floor. A verdict was returned olden th from concussion of the brain as too result of an accidental fall from tho stairwav. , . Mastbbton, September 0. At the inquest on the body of Walter John Pond, aged 17 years, which was found hanging from a ratter about 5 o clock last evening above the shop whore he was employed, the jury returned a verdict of suicide while temporarily insane.