ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 141, 11 December 1911, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A WOMAN'S DEATH. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Saturday. A married woman named Mrs. Goodby, aged about 50, residing with her daughter, Mrs. Mason, iu Philip street. Newton, drank lysol. She died after her removal to the hospital. FATAL FIRE AT LOWER HUTT. Wellington, Saturday. Thomas Jenkins, aged 45, lost his life early this morning through being suffocated by smoke during the destruction by fire of a four-roomed house at Lower Hutt, where he lived alone. The fire brigade arrived promptly, but did not know anyone was in the house till they found the body in the bedroom. Jenkins evidently tried to make his escape, but was suffocated. KILLED BY A TRAIN. Auckland, Last Night. A native named Charlie George, of Mercer, employed by the Railway Department as one of the relaying gang working in the neighborhood of Kimihia siding, was run over yesterday morning and instantaneously killed by the MercerHuntly goods train. The , driver of the train states that the morning was grey and foggy. As the train approached Kimihia, he saw something between the lines lying in a crouched and bundled up position. He was unable to pull up in time, and the body was terribly mutilated. Peceased's bicycle was found by the line, and it is supposed he had had a fall, which rendered him unconscious. He was a married man. YOUNG MAN'S SUICIDE. Christchurch, Last Night. Charles Edwin Dobson, 22 years of age, residing at Woolston, committed suicide at his home at about 2.40 p.m. on Saturday. His parents saw him go to his room, and hearing a report went to see what the matter might be. Deceased lay with a double-barrelled gun cloße to him, and it was clear that he had shot himself. He was then dead. He had been in ill-health for some time past. At the inquest a verdict of suicide whilst temporarily insane was returned. TWO INQUESTS. Wellington, Last Night. Dr. McArthur, coroner, held two inquests on Saturday. In the case of the death of Alfred George Haines, who was found hanging in a shed at his residence at Khandallah on Friday, the medical evidence was that death was due to heart failure, not strangulation, and a. verdict was returned accordingly. In the case of Archibald Buchanan, who was (found with his throat cut in a private hotel on Tuesday, a verdict was returned of death from septic pneumonia, due to wounds self-inflicted while temporarily insane. MAN DROWNED. Wellington, Last Night. The police received advice that a man named Dobson was drowned at Lyall Bay this afternoon. No particulars are to hand.