ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8152, 9 July 1906, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

PEB PBKBS ASSOCIATION. Wellinqton, July 7. Mr Patrick S. Garvey, Governor of the Gaol in Wellington for many years, who has been ill for some weeks, died this morning. Deceased was at ono time in the Irish constabulary, and had been connected with the New Zealand Prison Department since 1874. Two months ago he was laid I aside with an attaok of pleurisy, and the added trouble of heart affection made his condition so serious that the doctors were alarmed. Later on, however, he gave signs of returning health, and he gradually improved until it was 1 thought that in a week's time he would be fit to resume his office duties. This morning after he had been talking • quietly to one of his children, he suddenly collapsed and died. Death « was due to heart failure. Deceased ' ■ was born in 1850, in Ireland. He ' \ began life as a clerk in a County ' [ Inspector's office, and had experience ' , in the Eoyal Irish Constabulary Force ' ' before coming to New Zealand in his ' early manhood. At the age of 22, he ' . was appointed by the Prison Department to a post in Lyttelton gaol, ) and he made more than ordinary pro- ■ gress in regard to promotion. From 1 1875 to 1881 ho was clerk in the ! prison, and he then volunteered for s discipline duty. In 1882 he was transferred to Wellington as chief warder '• in charge of Mount Cook gaol. In 1884 he was made gaoler at the e Terrace Prison, • and a year later, on i the retirement of Micaiah Held from r the Governorship of the gaol, Mr Garvey succeeded him, and has filled that post ever since, besides carrying out duties of Probation Officer. Chbistchuhch, July 7. A married woman named Jane Cross was found dead at her residence, Sydenham, about 3.30 o'clock this a afternoon. Her husband, who is em'l ployed at the Islington Freezing ' n Works, left his wife at liome in good j health on Monday last, when he went to his work, but on returning this afteris noon he found her lying in the scullery » dead, with a hrge portion of her .1 clothes burnt, and her hips and legs n considerably charred. Mrs Cross, though not seen at her house yester,n day, was heard moving about at 7 i- o'clock last evening, and the accident ■ e must have happened since then. Chbistchuhch. July 8. An inquest opened at the morgue ,•" this .afternoon, touching the death oi ls Jane Cross, whoso body had been * found in her house at Sydenham the !<j previous afternoon very badly burned. jj Formal evidence was taken, and the inquest adjourned in order that further inquiries might be made by the poliee. Nelson, July 7, Mr I. S. M. Jacobsen, a pioneer builder and architect, well known in , Ckristchurch, Nelson, and Auckland, died last night at an advanced age. r | He built the old Nelson College. [r =====