ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 229, 15 February 1913, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

FATAL FALL FROM A CART. •

Per Press Association.

Auckland, Friday

At the inquest on the body of a mal# infant found at the city sanitary depot, a witness stated that several bodies had been found during the last four or five years, but as they were small ones- no notice was taken. The jury returned a verdirt that death was due to neglect, with the result that manslaughter had been committed by some person unknown.

SUICIDE BY POISONING,

Auckland. Friday

Percy Paine, a youii'.' man, was admitted to tb'.' hospital on Tuesday suffering from the effects of poison., It. was staled that he had taken rough-on-rats and carbolic aeid because he had a row with his boss. Paine died in the hospital to-day. FATAL FALL FROM A HORSE. Rotorua, Last Night. A Maori named Ropiha was found insensible in the street early yesterday morning and removed to the' Sana tor-, inm, where'he died last- night. He'was last seen riding his horse and it is presumed that he fell off. A DUNEDIN FATALITY. Dunedin, Last Night. An inquest on the body of John Elder, aged 3(i years, who was fatally injured yesterday as the result, of a fall from a cart was held to-day. The man died in the ambulance waggon on his way to the hospital. Tlie evidence showed that death was due to internal hemorrhage and shock. The deceased was* sitting on the top of a _ bread_ van round which them was a railing eight or nine inches high. He was holding a bag in front of his bead, when, owing to the strong wind "ancTrain. the horse swerved and the deceased fell oIF the cart. A verdict of accidental death was returned.