ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 43, 26 June 1913, Page 2

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

LYSOL POISONING. [Pee Press Association.] Palmerslon North, Jims: 25. To-night at 9.30 two local residents discovered in one of the square reserves a man suffering violently from the effects oi poison. The man was unconscious. A doctor and the police were brought to the scene, but the man died in about half an hour. He had taken the whole, contents of a small bottle of lysol, and lay down on the seat to die. On searching the body the police found that the man's name was T. Gilligan. No other detoils are available. He was. aged about 35 years, of medium height, dark, and in shabby clothes. SELF-INFLICTED INJURIES. Christchurch, June 25. An old man named Francis Purs, 6? years of age, was admitted to the hospital thin afternoon suffering from cuts self inflicted. The affair took place in the public gardens, to which the old man was almost a daily visitor. Ho had been in low spirits lately, and suffered from hallucinations, and this afternoon took it into his head to hack himself with a penknife. He' inflicted a nasty wound in his wrist, and cut himself about in other ways, losing a considerable quantity of blood in the process.