ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 33, 7 February 1913, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

I AN INFANT’S DEATH. I (Per Press Association.) mm*.; ■ Auckland, February 6. I Violet Irene Thompson, aged 21 I months, died in the hospital from what I is believed to be alcoholic poisoning. I The child suffered from infantile diarrI hoea, and the mother gave hei I braildy and port wine. The child beI came so bad that she had to bo reI moved to the hospital, Where she died. I An inquest is to be held. I KILLEDi BY A RUNAWAY .HORSE. I I Auckland, February 6. i A settler of Leigh, named Hand- [ ley was killed to-day. Deceased was 5 driving a vehicle, and at a narrow point of the road, with a drop of ' seventy feet into the creek, met a runaway dray of another settler, | bolting. The horse dashed into : 'i Handley’s trap and sent him over the |i edge, his body crashing down the bank i to the creek below. When taken out it was seen that his case was desperate, and after lingering for about an hour and a half in an unconscious state the unfortunate man breathed his last. Deceased was sixty years of age, with a grown-up family, and was .highly respected in the district. ■ “ A WOMAN’S DEATH. Wellington, February G. Jessie Holt, the woman found in a critical condition (suffering from septic poisoning) , under unusual circumstances in Lome street last Fll- - night, has died in the hospital. The doctor having certified that death was due to natural causes, no inquest is to be held. KICKED BY A HORSE. Woodville, February 6. Last night the eighteen-months-old boy of Charles Lynch, on the Masterton road, was kicked by a horse. The little fellow lingered on until six this morning, when he died.