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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 59, 31 August 1911, Page 5

SUICIDE BY DROWNING. Carterton, August 30. In the Carterton Court yesterday an inquest was held by Mr. J. T. M. Hornsby, the coroner, on the body of the. man Michael Byrne, who was found drowned in a, creek at Te Wharau. The evidence allowed that deceased had been worried over money matters, thinking lie would bo done out of a sum due to him, and lie also sufl'ered from insomnia. There was no trace of alcohol or poison in the body, and medical evidence showed that deceased: had died of asphyxiation, caused by drowning. A verdict was returned of suicide while temporarily insane. FATAL TRAP ACCIDENT. Dunediti, Last Night. An accident occurred on the Leith Valley road, three or four miles from Dunedin, this afternoon, whereby Mrs. C. B. M. Branson, licensee of Branson's Hotel, was killed, and her son severely injured. The two had been for a drive, and while returning the son got out to get some flax, leaving the reins with bis mother. While he was out the horse bolted, and though the son managed to clamber over the back of the trap, the horse ran over the edge of a bank into a creekMrs. Branson had her neck broken, and! was dead when taken to the hospital., The son is unconscious, but is expected to recover. . i w