ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 15, 16 January 1913, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

SUICIDE BY HANGING

(.Per Press Association.)

Christchurch, .January 15

A married woman named Lamina Lamb, aged 17, was • md imaging in the hall of her residence a L Sydenham this afternoon dead. At the ini \,est a verd et of suicide while temporarily insane was returned

A PECULIAR DEATH

Gisborne, January 15

Art old identity, ’ >nned Edward James Campion, was found dead under somewhat peculiar circumstance, to-night in a room oil the rear fo the office of James Brow?i, land agent. Brown reported the death at 9 p.m., and stated that Campion came to his office at 4 p.m. and remained there till about 8 o’clock. Campion laid down as though to sleep, and Brown discovered that he was dead. Life war extinct when the police and the doctoi arrived, and two empty whisky bottle wore found near the hotly. Campion . daughter is in Brown’ employ a* clerk. Deceased was a well-know, figure about town, formerly in busi ness as a surveyor, and has relative in Napier. ACCIDENT AT HTJIRANGI. A serious accident befel 'Vi 0. J Herrick, of Huirangi, on Tuesday evening (states the News). He wa out in the hay-field with his mowing machine, when the breeching broke and the horse started kicking. M Herrick, who was seated, driving th animal, received the full form cf tin animal’s lashings on his leg, and tin result was a bad fracture. Medica. services were secured, and Mr Her rick was conveyed to the hospital where ho is doing as well as could b expected.

KILLED BY A FALL OF EARTH

Hastings, January 15

James Symes, single, aged about 40 was entombed by a fall of earth on tin Borough drainage works this after noon. The deceased, who was a lay er, was working in trench at ; depth of 11 feet vhen the side cave' in and he was buried by about : ton of earth. The body was recovers! two hours later, but life wa- extinct Walter Frederick Lambert, who wa working on the surface when it col lapsed was buried to the shoulde He seized a plank of supporting tim ber, which prevented him being com pletely submerged. Lambert is no seriously injured.

CUT BY A BINDER

'Tinu.ru, January 15

John Mann, employee at J. Bray’: farm at Cricklewood, was doing some thing to a wilder when the horse bolted, dragging him under the rna chine for a long way. He was ter ribly . cut about the ogs and body One log had to be amputated. H was shortly to be married, and hi fiancee is on the way out from Eng land.

THE NEW BRIGHTON FATALITY

Christcliurcli, January 15

An inquest was held to-night o' the victims of the drowning fatalit at Herring Bay, New Brighton, yes terday. A verdict of accidental!, drowned was returned Evidence wa to the effect that Mrs. Height wa in difficulties before her brother-in law Height entered the water. H jumped in partially dressed and wen to her assistance but was dragged un dor, both being drowned.

TWO VICTIMS AT WANGANUI

Wanganui. January 15. Another drowning fatality occurrc in the Wanganui River the third i in a week, this morning Arthu Hill Campbell, aged 33 married, wit two children, was the victim It ap pears that Campbell, who is a pro hibited man, had oeen drinking heav i]y lately. About four o’clock thi morning he escaped surveillance a his home in Wanganui East, an' though followed, made l >is way to tin Aramolio bridge and thence down t the water’s edge and plunged in. Tli body was recovered this afternoon Campbell was recently before tb Court‘on charges of theft and als with breaking his prohibition order and probably the convictions, allicv with the effects of drink, upset hi mental balance.

An inquest was hold this afternooi into the circumstanc «• surroundin' the death of John Brady, who wa drowned at Kaiwhaike, or. Friday Evidence showed that when the cry “Man overboard” was raisea on th> Waiwere a lifebuoy was thrown on and the vessel put full speed astern Another lifebuoy fell within Brady’; reach, but he made no attempt to get it. He appeared to have struck hi; head on something just before hi would-be rescuers could reach him The body sank. Some coal and hen zine tins had been stored amidships and it was suggested that perlmn Brady tripped on these. Tdf had hat some drink, but was said not to he under its influence. A verdict of accidental drowning was returned.