ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11, 17 May 1913, Page 2

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

A POISONING FATALITY. p vr *■■]' '■ : ij' . [Per Press Association.] i ftw Najvietj 'Slay 15. W. J. Heiford, a storeman in the employ of Williams and Kettle, Ltd., died about 1 o’clock this morning as the Tcsult of'drihkin£ a poisonou's mixff.li' coiftaftiifijl carbolic and crbsylic acids,"the" previwis -evening'.' !

SUICIDE BY HANGING. Christchurch, May 15, The police have received information that a married woman named Marina Mary Roper, thirty-five ybare 'of age, is believed to have committed suicide by hanging herself at'Cburtonay, about 5 p.AlAyesterday;' ‘. ‘ ' l; " ■ A GUARD’S DEATH. , ‘I Hamilton, May 15. At the inquest on Guard 'Bradbury the evidence showed that the accident occurred at I o’clock in the morning. Bradbury waa assisting in shunting, and got his foot jammed in a rail crossing, and was unable to extricate himself before the goods train knocked him down, fractured his left shoulder, broke four of his left ribs, caused a .contusion of the left foot, and the left liing was torn by the broken ends of ribs. Pneumonia set in on Saturday, and deceased succumbed to septic pneumonia yesterday. A guard said that accidents often occurred through a rush. If they did not rush shunting; they were fined for excessive delay. He stated that the yard was very .rough to Work. -‘A verdict' of ac-cidental-death was returned, with no blame attachable to anyone. CHILD BURNT TO DEATH. Palmerston North, May. 15. A fatal accident occurred at Shannon .yesterday morning. Mrs P. Gill, on going to the washhouse left her two-year-old girl in front of Hie fire.. She heard screams a few seconds later, and rushing back met her child in the passage enveloped in flames. the mother was badly burnt in extinguishing the flames. A doctor was callcd ’from Foxton and' Hie child was ordered to, the Otaki Hospital, but as she was > sinking; fast,' the patient was returned to her home, where she expired in’a'few minutes.

Two men who were working at thb bottom of a hol'eT, eight feet deep, near the Symons Street end of KaVitngahftpe ’ Road, Auckland, had a very narrow'"escape from death on Wednesday morning. A horse" attached to a four-wheeled vehicle belonging to Messrs.-' AifaWryf*,; Etd'.;' Shied' at a heap of sack's;,?’; alid, swerving Vdnnd’’ fill head fOrethOst down' thehole. One of the men was able to scramble out without being injured, but the other was jammed hetweei; the horse and a heavy piece of timber that runs across the hole; He was extricated with some and it was found that he Hkd sustained painful injuries to the/dhest and head. .The efforts Of the gang of men who work on the road formation to haul the horse out proved unavailing, and the services of two horses had to be requisitioned. It was half an hour, however, before the arfimal, which 'wak literally standing bn- its head the v Wkole of that time, was rescued from It's predicament. ’ i ■ /■ OT< ,'VV _____ A SETTLER’S DEATH. Dunedin, May 16. Patrick McEwoy, a settler near Tuapelta Mouth, was found 'dead in bed This radrning.