ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 166, 17 July 1903, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

FEB PEEBS ASSOCIATION. 1 Donedin, July 16. 1 The inquest on the body of Miss 1 Oampbell was resumed this morning. One witness testified to seeing deceased meet Osmond on the evening in question. Osmond carried a parcel, and deceased had no hat on. Dr. Evans testified that when he %aw the body at 3.30 in the afternoon it must hav been dead over 15 hours. He made a post mortem examination with Dr. Martin, bus found no sign of a mark or injury. Witness gave evidence as to finding deceased in a certain condition, and that certain internal parts had been interfered with. He found no trace of poison. In his opinion the cause of death was syncope, or cardiac : inhibition, brought on by some manipu- ' lation of the internal parte, Ther. ' were similar cases where death had I been caused by' shock. Another wit- ' ness gave evidence as to finding a pen ' near toe body. ' Joseph 0. mond said he had not seen 1 his son since tbe evening of the 7th, l and bad no idea of his whereabout?. ' Be quite expected bis son would have ' married deceased shortly, as he had a ' quantity of furniture in his room. c After some formal evidence, the jury l gave the following verdict: —" That deceased met her death through shock, ' caused by improper interference with ' genitals, but by whom performed thtre t is not sufficient evidence to show." ° Auckland, July 16. £ A hardware warehouseman named F. Mountfort committed suicide by hang- s ing himself in a stable at the rear of his residence at Mount Eden. He had r been unwell and despondent for several months. Tbe discovery was made by his wife, who cut the dead body down and fell fainting across it, .Deceased leaves three young children. He belonged to a well-known Canterbury family, his father having been arohiteot . of the Onristohuroh Cathedral, ['

Pabib, July 18. The machinery U6ed in a transformation soene at the Folies Marigny theatre in Paris collapsed, preoipating sixteen danoing girls into the well of the theatre, severely injuring most of them.