ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 22, 26 June 1913, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

LYSOL POISONING. Per Press Association. Palmerston North, Last Night. To-night at !).30 two local residents discovered, in one of the square reserves, a man suffering violently from the effects of poison. The man was unconscious. A doctor and the police were brought to the scene, but the man died in about half an hour, lie had taken the whole contents of a small bottle of lysol, and lay down on the seat to die. On searching the body the police found that the man's name was T. Gilligan. No other details are available. He was aged about 35 years, of medium height, dark, and in shabby clothes. A VICTIM OK HALLUCINATIONS Cliristelmrch, Last Niglit. I Au old man named Francis Purs, 0!) years "of age, was admitted to the hospital this afternoon suffering from cuts self inflicted. The affair took place in the public gardens, to which the old man was almost a daily visitor. He had been in low spirits lately, and suffered from hallucinations, and this afternoon took it into his head to hack himself with a penknife. Ho inflicted a nasty wound in his wrist, and cut himself, about in other ways, losing a consider- i abb' quantity of blood in the process.