ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 120, 12 May 1908, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

DEATH UNDLUI (JilEOltOEUiUi. 1 Per Pleas Association. Napier, Monday. Aiieliael JiirkUy, W nasungs, a marr,ed man, iib years of age, died at the hospital while under chloroform. ily tailing over a doorstep on Ntuudity nc fractured Iwih hones of llie left leg. fte was brought into -Napier lor treatment. f)rs. W. .Moore and llrett administered the chloroform. While under tile inlluenee of the anaesthetic, tae patient collapsed.

INQUEST. Oliristchurch, Last Night An inquest was held this afternoon on the body of the man Turley, who waI'jiiud lying ou the ro&d outside fsUath mure lio.spiuil uu Friday uiVniotm «iifilling from injuries to his head ami who died iu the Christcllul'ch Hospital yesterday. Investigations have that Turley fell from a trap. The jury returned a verdict that tlie deceased j met his death through injuries received by a fall from a trap while in a state of intoxication.

AWKGKD ATTJSMPTKI) iSHOIUK. (Jhristclnirch, Night. A 1111111 named Ward was found ljrmjt on the river bank on Saturday mgnt sull'ering from au overdose of chloiotlvne. He was taken to the police station by a constable with the idea tnat he was drunk, hut later lie was removed to the hospital, where the attendants had to keep him moving all night lest lie should fall asleep. Yesterday he was better James Ward was '"is morning charged at the Magistrates Court with having attempted to commit I suicide, and on the application of the police he was remanded to May ll>.

EMACIATED MAN RFJfUSED ACCOMMODATION. Auckland, Last Night. _ At the inquest to-day on the death of William Amos, a Wellington resident, who died suddenly ill Queen street yesterday, evidence was given that deceased had endeavored to obtain accommodation at various hotels iu Onehunga and city, but was refused in every ease on account of his emaciated appearance. The jury, in returning a verdict oi death from natural causes, added a rider that the authorities be requested to take action against those hotelkcepers who had refused for insufficient reasons to accommodate deceased.

SCICIDE WHILE INSANE. Anltburlon, Last Sight. AI. tin' i"i.j'>lirnc<l inquest. held to-day on tin; diMt.li of A. 11. I'enny, who was found dead under suspicious circumstance* in the Fonuml Hotel on 7th iiibt., tiff jury, after receiving the report of tin; Ooveniment Analyst, returned n verdiel. that deceased committed suicide. liy taking oxalic arid while temporarily insane.

A BODY RECOVERED. Wanganui, Last Night. The body of Matthew Connor, a wellknown settler, who was drowned in the river seventeen miles above Wangamu on October 10th, 11)07, was found flouting opposite Castlccliff yesterday. At the inquest to-dtty, a verdict of accidental death was returned.