ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 98, 22 May 1909, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

DEATH FIIOM NEULECT. By Telegraph,—Press Association. Wellington, May 21. At ail inquest to-day on cue oou.v on a child, live months old, who had died in Nurse Callinghain's receiving home,' Lower Hutt, the evidence siiunvu the. infant had weighed ll'/ 3 pound*. The Coroner (Dr. JlcArtliiirj returned a verdict thai death was due to inanition, owing to malnutrition, probably aggravated by diarrlioea. He said the child had not been cared for as ir, snoiild have been, and the professional nurse having care of such a child was guilty of absolute neglect in not calling in a doctor for several week* before the death of the child, which was nothing but skin and bones. The nurse had no right to receive any cnlldreu in the home, and he retained her license, or so-called exemption, with tne oujeei of communicating.with the Health Department on the mutter.

Wellington, L.tst Night. After the inquest to-day the police, laid an information against Mrs. Calling hum, charging her, under the Infant Fro tectum Act, with neglecting the deceased infant in .such a manner as was likely to endanger its health. The case w ! 'i be heard next Wednesday. A BUV'S-DKAiTH, Ashburton, May 21. An inquest touching the death of Jas. ■Walsh, tin* buy who was fatally injured at Wheatstone yesten.jy, was iieul before Mv. Y. (.5. Day, magistrate, witiiout a jury to-day. A verdict was returned that deceased met his death accidentally through injuries received as a result of being run over by a waggon drawn by a traction engine, no blame being attachable to anyone. The «'vidence showed that deceased was on the drawbar of the waggon unknown to the driver. While dismounting lie slipped and the heel passed over him, inflicting l shocking injuries, from wlnei) he died I shoi'tlv afterwards.

HUUXEI) TO DEATH. Ashburton, .May 21. A single man, about 50 years of age. was found burnt to death in the remains of a tent on the Uiiapuua estate, some miles beyond Muylield, this morning. Deceased lived 'by himself, and was engaged as a stonepickei' on tin estate. When last seen yesterday lit was in a. happy frame of mind. It ■> presumed the incineration was accident al and happened during the time hi was asleep.

ACCIDEXT-Oli WHAT? Core May 21. A. Turiibull left his home at Waikaka on Saturday for Waikaia. He bad not been heard of, and as his iiorse, saddled, had been found, a search party went out this morning anil found the 'body in a gully near the Waikuka, with tne head shattered by a gun-shot.