ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 252, 30 November 1909, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

SUICIDE AT AUCKLAND. By Telegraph.—Press Aisoi-iaLion. Auckland, .Monday. A man. nsined Henry Wood Coek, iviiployed at the works at the Te liana railway station, who had been brooding ove r domestic troubles, committed.suicide by drinking spirits of salts. DEATH IN A CELL. Auckland, Monday. A man named William Henry Miller was arrested at 1.30 ji.m. on Saturday on a charge of theft. He was taken to the Newmarket police station and put in a cell. At 3.10 p.m. he wan found lying on the floor with his h«r.l on the corner of a wooden bench. Two doctors were sent for, and on their nrival pronounced life extinct.

A SAWMILL FATALITY.

Invereargill, Last Night.

At the inquest to-day "on the body ot Robert Gunn McDonald, who died ut the hos'pital as a result of injuries received at a sawmill, the jury returned a verdict that he died as the result of being struck on the forehead by the handle of a winch which he was working, through the log lie was shifting accidentally slipping. 'l'lio following rider was added: ''The jury consider that for the Safety, of employees all sawmill winches should be provided with a safety cheek." THE UPPER HUTT FATALITY. Wellington, Last Night. At the adjourned inquest concerning the death of Thomas Joseph McCarthy, farmer, of Masterfon, which took place after deceased had fallen from a train at Upper Hutt, the Government analyst said he had examined the contents'ot the, stomach, and found there was sufficient strychnine to cause death. Deceased's widow said McCarthy used to suffer from heart trouble, for which lie t*>ok tabloids. She did not know what they contained. The Coroner, Dr. McArthur, S.M., said he was not prepared to say, from the medical evidence, thai there was' no doubt deceased took his •own life. As' to deceased's state ol health, lie thought any sudden shock, such as falling from atrain, would lie likely to cause death. The verdict was that death was probably from (syncope, caused by the diseased condition of the body and accelerated by accident. He (the cortmor) would leave suicide out ot the question.

NARROW ESCAPE FROM DROWNING

Christchiirch, Last Night. A narrow Sscape from drownin* orcurred in Lyttelton harbor yesterday. Two men who were out fishing in a boat •were capsized into the water, and ware soion in a very precarious condition. Fortunately for them, they were olwervi!(l from Fort Jervois, where the Lytt°lt>°?» ™ ,s wem in cara P' and Chief etty Officer Toomey put out in a cutter. He picked up the more exhausted of_ the two men, who would almost certainly have been drowned if the eutt»r had not gone out, and his unfortunate tcllow was taken on board the boat from which the two. had fallen.