ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 180, 29 January 1912, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A W t OMAN'S : DEATH. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Saturday. At the adjourned inquest on Madame Karle, or Gertrude Smith, who was taken ill on election night and died in a private hospital, the Government Analyst stated that the amount of apiol in the stomach could not have been more than one-third of the amount contained in one of Stearne's wafers, which it was stated'deceased had been takings Poisons may have, howeyer, been absorbed in the blood. Dr. Fyfe said he did not think apioloids were the cause of death. The coroner, in-re-turning a verdict that death d.ue to haemolysis of the blood, with acute inflammation of the kidneys, said that death apparently was caused by the-in-discriminate use of drugs. DROWNED IN SWIMMING. BATH, Christchurch, Last Night. James Borwick, 24 years of age, a laborer, whilst swimming in the Dunsandel swimming bath was drowned. A companion, named Chidley, endeavoring to teach him the Bide stroke. Afterwards Chidley swam to the shallow end of the bath, and a little later saw that Borwick was evidently in, trouble in the deeper water. He was waving his arms and beating the water as though he could not keep himself up. Chidley went to his assistance, but Borwick sank to tlig bottom and was drowned. The body was got out and attempts made to restore respiration for about an hour and a half, but these were unsuccessful. Borwick was a Scotchman, and arrived about three years ago.