ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 234, 8 February 1911, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

DEATH BY POISONING. By Telegraph,—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. Ernest Mason, a married man, aged 32, took lysol at his home at Newmarket. His wife found him in bed at midday in great pain, and sent for the doctor, but Mason expired before the doctor, arrived. No reason has been assigned for the occurrence. YOUNG WOMAN'S SUICIDE. Wan'ganui, Tuesday.' A young married woman named Edlin, wife of a local tobacconist, committed suicide this morning by drinking a lotion prescribed for her mother for an affection of the ear. Medical aid was quickly on the scene, but the woman died a few minutes later. Deceased was twenty years old, and left a child six months old. DEATH FROM HEART FAILURE. Auckland, Last Night. A fisherman named Henry Davidson died suddenly while out fislung in the Gulf this morning. Deceased bad come in contact .with the firing rod of the engine, and he received a slight, shock, and in a few minutes he dropped and quickly expired. Davidson has been suffering from heart trouble. FOUND DROWNED. Christchurch, Last Night. At the inquest at Little River regarding Trintram A. Hayden, a laborer, aged 43, a verdict was returned, that death was due to drowning, but there was no evidence to show how the body came into the water. Hayden was a stranger in the district, being on his way to a situation at Holmes' Bay. He left the Lake Forsyth Arms Hotel sober, and was seen lying on the edge of the river bank. His body was found in the river adjaccent to the spot where he was seen lying down.

SUDDEN DEATH. Wellington, Last Night. Robert Phillips, aged 41, died suddenly in Lambton Quay this evening. Papers in his pocket indicated that he had been employed as a pantryman on the steamer Mararoa, having left her on January 27. Mr. Oscar Bayly, of Waitara, was the victim of a nasty accident on Friday afternoon (reports the Waitara Mail). He was chopping wood, and in its descent the axe caught in something hanging from the roof of the shed in which the chopping was being done. The blade fell forcefully on Mr. Bayly's foot, cutting it through to the bone.