ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 17 October 1907, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Per Press Association. Chris tchurch, Last Xight. Police Inspector Gillies received a telegram from Lincoln to-day stating that William Cooper, 80 years of age, had been found dead in bed there this morning. Cooper was at his work as usual yesterday. Heart failure is supposed to have been the cause.

Prank Leslie Berry, the victim of yesterday's shooting accident, who was taken to the hospital, is progressing favorably, the bullet, which had lodegd in his head, having been extracted. yesterday the police recovered the tody of Claude Eooney, the second of the brothers who were drowned in Lake Forsyth on 28th September. The body was in a forward state of decomposition, and it wa3 decided that it should be interred without any inquest being held, the inquiry when the first body was found having proved sufficient.

Nelson, Last Xight. The police have received a telegram from the constable stationed at Takaka to the effect that a cWld five years of age, daughter of Mr. B. McFarlane, was killed to-day by falling from a dray. Ashburton, Last Xight. At the inquest touching the death of Alexandra Studholme, wife of John Studholme, of Cold Stream, who died suddenly at the homestead, held to-day before Mr. V. G. Day, S.M., Coroner, the medical evidence showed that deceased had been confined to her bed for eight weeks, and that yesterday, at the request of Mr. and Mrs. Studholme, Dr. B. AL Moorhouse, of Christchurch, administered an anaesthetic (chloroform) to allow of an examination being made to discover the complaint. Owing to the illness of Dr. Hunter, who had lven attending deceased before Dr. Moorhouse's visit, the latter had to administer the chloroform and make the examination alone. After the investigation deceased's heart gradually failed, and despite all efforts life became extinct. Though a post mortem examination of all the vital organs, except the brain, was made, no cause of death was found/ This was attributed to the chloroform acting on • deceased when sh% was in a weak condition and suffering probably from some distention of the intestines and stomach. The jury, without retiring, returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence. Deceased was a daughter of the late Dr. Thomson, Archbishop of flfork.

Auckland, last Night. An elderly man, Benjamin Clifton Paul, a plumber residing in Grey Lynn, was knocked down and killed by a tram jrhile crossing Ponsonby-road to-night. Palmerston North, Last Night. Oustas the midday train from Woodrille was passing the crossing at Alex-andra-street to-day a passenger named George Martin, a surveyor lately employed at Kumeroa, fell from the carriage in which he had been travelling. He was standing on the platform .it the time. He was at once picked up, and Dr. Greig was sent for. The doctor ordered his removal, and the injured man was taken to a private hospital. The patient was found to be suffering from injury to the spine and a contused Wcund on the head, the latter believed to have been caused by striking the carriage uehind the one on which he had been travelling, and which threw him clear of the rails. How the accident actually happened is not yet known, as the injured man is not yet sufficiently recovered to give any details.