ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 29, 10 January 1916, Page 2

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

JPBH PItESS IAssOOIAHON. Dunedin, January 9. At an early hour this morning, in the Dunedin hospital, a returned soldier named William John Willis was found by one of tlio nurses with his throat cut, and a razor in his hand. He was brought hack to Now Zealand* on the Maheno, and when admitted to hospital was suffering from dysentery. Deceased was a widower and resided in. Dunedin, Wellington .January S.

j The death occurred at the Victoria Hospital yesterday afternoon of Private Jeffrey Coupland, who was admitted to the institution on December '2oth from the May -Mori! Camp, suffering from appendicitis. Ho underwent an operation on Wednesday. The deceased was twenty-one years of age, and belonged to Auckland. He was a member of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade reinforcements. A soldier named J. Thelan collapsed in one of the city streets yesterday afternoon, and expired while being conveyed to the district hospital in the ambulance.

An inquest was commenced to-day to« ascertain the cause of the death of August Williams, a waterside worker, who collapsed a few days ago while working on the steamer Ocean Monarch. \)i. H. A, H. Uiliiier, in giving evidence, expressed the opinion that heart failure was the immediate cause of death.

The body of an old-age pensioner, named William Isaac Wilslrire, was found hanging to a tree in .Newtown Park yesterday morning, close to lutssell Terrace. A note, found on the body, addressed to the Coroner, contained an intimation that th e « old man intended to take bis life.

Thomas Phelan, aged 54 years, a resident'of Abel Smith Street, died in ;i cab on the way to the hospital at •i. 50 p.m. yesterday. Deceased had suffered from dropsy, and had been attended for some time past by a medical. man, who will certify us to the cause of death.