WITHIN THE DOMINION.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 226, 11 June 1915, Page 2

WITHIN THE DOMINION.

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. SUDDEN DEATH. AUCKLAND, June 9. A man named Alexander Cochrane dropped dead while at breakfast about 8 o’clock this morning. The deceased was a retired engineer and 72 years of age. He resided with his family at Ponsonby ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER. WELLINGTON, June 9. At the Magistrate’s Court to-day John Dickson appeared on a charge of causing the death of James Hamblyn, a patient in the Porirua Mental Asylum, where Dickson was formerly an attendant, by neglecting to test the temperature of the bath into which Hamblyn was placed. The latter had died as the result of scalds received.At the inquest Dickson had explained that before he got to the bathroom another patient had turned on the hot water. Dickson was remanded for a week, bail being allowed.