ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 308, 21 May 1913, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

PTOMAINE POISONING. By Telegraph— Press Association. Auckland, Tuesday. Alter her evening meal, the principal dish being stewed mutton, Mrs. Mary Ann Rowley and her daughter, residing in Ponsonby Terrace, developed ptomaine poisoning. Mrs. Rowley died shortly afterwards from heart failure. Her daughter recovered. No explanation can be given of the cause of the poisoning.

A CHILD POISONED. Hamilton, Last Night. The three year old child of a settler residing at Walton, lost its life in a peculiar manner. Its mother and another woman were making soap, when a small quantity of caustic soda and water was left in a dipper. The little one picked up the vessel while it was playing and drank a quantity of the contents with fatal effect.

SUFFOCATED BY GAS. Christchurch, Last Night. One of the members of the special party which accompanied the Dunedin school children on their visit io Christchurch, J. Murdoch, a member of the Mosgiel school committee, had a serious mishap to-day. He was slaving at (Joker's-Hotel, and did not get "up this morning. On entering his r o 6m at noon, one of the hotel attendants lound the apartment full of gas, and tiie gas jet in the room was turned on. Muidoch, who was unconscious, was a t o'l.uv conveyed to the Christcliurch Hospital, where his condition was lv.daounccd to be critical. It is thought that when turning off the gas on retiring last night Murdoch unwittingly turned it on again after the light was extinguish'd.

A MOTOR FATALITY. Dannevirke, Last Night. An accident which resulted faTcJly occurred at Piripiri crossing, » few miles north of Dannevirke yesterday at midday. A motor car containing' Roy Horace Dean and Miss E. Sweetapple,' going North, was run into by the goods train! Dean, who was driving, sus'ajiW .severe injuries to the head, and was :al;pn to the Dannevirke Hospital, and <:;<; d four hours after. Miss Sweetapple escaped injury, but suffered from shook. The crossing is a very dangerous die, and has been the scene of :nany previous accidents. Trains cannot be seen coming either way until practically on the crossing. An agitation has neen ■»» ing on for years for the iiitlnvities to m:nimjse the danger, but "no Railway Department consider the local interested should themselves const.-net an overhead bridge. THE BOULCOTT STREET TRAGEDY. Wellington, Mav 20 At the inquest on Alexander Tiioi-.'son, who shot himself in J'oulcott street on Saturday, a verdict was returned that death was due to a gunshot wound self-inflicted. DEATH FROM BLOOD POISONING. Greymoutb, Last Night. An inquest was held to-dav touching the death of Bertha Elizabeth Bird, a married woman, who died at Ngahcre last week. A verdict was returned that ceased met her death through blood poisoning, as the result of improper interference.