ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 39, 5 February 1908, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

LVM-'I^TS. Pit Pri's-j .\s.suoiiilion, J)unoilin, Li\s\, Nigiil. Al i)j4' iiujucsl un tin* Uody of Joseph Ho'»son. who wus killed on iii c rauuny U'\t.r Liavcnsbouriii! ycsicnlay, ilic jury vciunied si vcrilk't tSmt ilctMiu-ied inei ins ik'.uii l*y awidniiiiiix lulling h'OJii a train wljilt' sulit'iiiiy imm a lit. The cvidviKT showed that deceased was subject to eyik'plie and that iic was always despondent after them. The pulieo stated la* was very despondent yestoitlay morning.

Wellington, l/a>t Night. An inquest was held to-day touching the circumstances .surrounding the death of .Martha Annie Uard*ley. aged <U. Vho died suddenly at CrofUm on Tuesday evening. Jlenry Harsley staled that no was formerly the husband of deceased, but was divorced from her in Seplember. Deceased, after leaving had been arrested several times, ai'd then had gone to wiliicss for assistance, residing with him at intervals. The la it time she hoi visited wifne.-s ua-> i n December 12th, 1007. when she remained with him. The only time she was not sober was oil December Hist, when sic went to the hospital sull'ering I'rom a very bad car. She was considerably weaker than when she resided with him formerly. She got a lotion for thy car, and some tonic. On Sunday morning deceised complained of being ill a.ml weak, but prepared witness' breakfast and went to bed directly. On Sunday

she had complained of being weak and wanted to go to the hospital, but'-as witness did not think she cjuld be t.;km as an in-patient without the order of a doctor, she did not go. On Tuesday she became so bad that at 2 p.m. witness sent his son to the doctor who had been attending her, so that he could get an order for her admittance thereto. He returned by the (t.W train, and r»aid ihat as the doctor was attached to the hospital he could not leave the hospital to see deceased. Witness did not ask for ail order as he understood it was lieees- ] sary for a doctor to sec a patient before ■ iidmissiou. Deceased was able 1o look after herself up to Sunday last, after which witness had attended to her. The whole of the time during Tuesday afternoon deceased appeared to be sleeping, and death occurred about 5.A0 o'clock. A doctor and the police were sent for, and on their arrival Dr. Henry pronounced life to be extinct. Dr. Henry, who had made a post mortem examination, said there was an abscess on thc surface of the brain, and another at thc base. He attributed death to the condition of the brain, Thc condition of deceased's liver indicated that she had been given to intemperate habits. A' verdict was returned of "death from inflammation of the brain.' 5

BODY FOUND. Dunedin. List Xiglit. The liody of Robert Sutherland, who drowned in the lower luivbor 011 ■ lime 1.") while proceeding from Carey's Ray to Olakoii, was found this morning. The body was considerably ed, and the head and arms were mbsing. Wellington. Tuesday. A liny named liei'tie "Watkins, vesidmi',' al "Miichclltown. died this morning. Tie returned from school yesterday and complained of feeling unwell. Several attacks of vomiting followed, and the doctor was called in. The eiuse of death is not known.