ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 22, 18 September 1912, Page 8

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

ROUGH-ON-RATS BY MISTAKE. (Per Press Association.; Christ-church, September 17.

At an inquest held on Thos. Anderson Robertson, 49 years of age, a pastry cook, who died at 2 a.m., the evidence of deceased's wife was to the effect that Robertson had been out of work for a week. He sometimes took too much to drink, but it did not take much to upset him. When lie returned home at 8 p.m. on Monday he was under influence of liquor. About eleven o'clock, Robertson, who was suffering from rheumatism, and who was in the habit at night of taking sulphur for Ins complaint, asked witness to get some cream of tartar and soda, She found the box in which the sulphur was kept untouched, but the lid off a box containing rough-on-rats. On asking Robertson he said l;e had taken sulphur. Witness stated that deceased was sufficiently fuddled to mistake rough-on-rats for sulphur. After hearing medical evidence a verdict was recorded that deceased died from arsenic poisoning as a result of taking rough'-on-rate in mis take for sidphur. BOY lULLE])~BY A TRAM. Auckland, September 17. A fatal accident occurred in Hobson street, this afternoon. A boj named Lyall Watson, aged 7 years, was knocked down by a tram car, receiving such injuries that he died at the Hospital this evening.