ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 104, 18 September 1912, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A SEAMAN MISSING. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Tuesday. W illiarn Roberts, a seaman employed oil the coastal steamer Opawa, is reported missing. He was last seen by the engineer of the Opawa at 11 o'clock last Thursday niglit. when the vessel berthed alongside the wharf. The police have dragged the vicinity without result, Roberts was about 00 years of age. ACCIDENTAL POISONING. Christcliurcli, Tuesday. Thomas Anderson Robertson, aged' 40, a married man, died in the city last night as the result of poisoning. He was in the habit of taking some drug for indigestion and it is believed be took "'rough on rats" by mistake.

Christchureh. Last Night. At an inquest held on Thos. Anderson Robertson, 4!l years of age. a pastry cook, who died at 2 a.m., the evidence'of deceased's wife was to the effect that Robertson had been out of work for a week. He sometimes took too much to drink, but it did not take much to up.-.n him. When he returned home at S pan. on Monday he was under influence of liquor. About eleven o clock. Robertson, who was suffering from rhuunatisin. and who was .;i the habit at night of taking sulphur for his complaint, asked witne-s to i"'t some cream of tartar and soda. She found the box in which the sulphur was kept untouched, but the lid oii' a box containing rough-on-rats. On asking Robertson he said that he had taken .sulphur. Y\ it lies* stated that deceased was si; fficiently fuddled to mistake routrh-on-ra ts for sulphur. After hearing medical evidence a verdict was recorded that deceased died from arsenic poisoning as a result of taking rough-on-rat:s in mistake for sulphur. BOY KILLED BY A TRAM. A MAN POISONED. Auckland. Last Night. A fatal accident occurred in Ilobsonsfreet. this afternoon . A boy named Lvall Watson, aged 7 years, was knocked down by a tram car, receiving such injuries that hi; died at the Hospital this evening.