ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 22, 9 January 1912, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

(For Press Association.)

Napier, January 9. At the inquest on Mrs. Houldsworth, who died aboard the Mokora on the journey from Gisborne, a verdict was returned that death was duo to cerebral hemorrhage resulting from the congested state of her blood vessels. Thames, January B.' At the inquest on the man and woman killed on the Kaueranga railway bridge, no fresh evidence was adduced, except that a parcel was found cn the bridge above where the man’s body was discovered. From thence a bloodstained track led to where the woman’s body was "found on the railway line, showing that the man was struck down and killed instantaneously, and the body carried by the train some distance. The hoy Rowlands, who was accidentally shot on the steamer Wakatere by another boy, still lies in an unconscious state in the Thames Hosnital. One sde is paralysed/ Arthur Walding, who shot Rowlands, has been arrested, and is in a state of mental anguish. It was feared he might injure himself in his remorse. Gisborne, January 8. A young man named John William Wood, single, a native of England, was found dead this evening in an outbuilding at the rear of where he was stay big in Roebuck Road. Wood was until lately accountant for F. Hall and Sons, but since leaving has been out of employment and leading intemperate habits.