ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 163, 9 January 1914, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

AX 0L1) MAX'S DEATH. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night. Michael Tovery, an old resident of Arrowiown, was found dead in his house l:i-t civt'iiiiijj. lie wan last seen aim- on Saturday evening, when lie complained to Dr. Thomson of a pain in his chesi. He wan unmarried and had no relatives in the Dominion. At an inquest a vcr diet war- returned in accordance with the im dit .il testimony, that dec'ased had died from fatty degenration of the heart.

AITAKKXT POJSOXiNC. Wellington. La.-t Night. An irritant poison, the nature of which li:h not yet lieen ascertained, was apparently responsible for the death of Richard Mostyn Hoops, of 28, Oriental Terrae", who was employe) as Wellington town traveller for a wholesale chemical finn. The late Mr l|o<ms was taken ill suddenly oil Tuesday, and died in the afternoon, soon after the arrival of i l . doctor. The circumstance of chic? ■ ijfiiific'Hi;'e up to the present lias licen the discovery of a bottle of opium pills in the room occupied by the deceased, but at the inquest this afternoon the medical evidence, although pointing to dentil by poisoning, threw 110 light on the sonic.! of the irritation which re suited fatally. The proceedings were adjourned until a report is received from the f.'ovcniment Analyst.

DEAD WOMAX IDEXTTITED. "YVellinpt'.iii, Last Night. The middle-aged woman who dieil sudd 'lilv yesterday, after being taken ill in the street near Parliamentary Buildinss, has been identified as Mrs. Myra I'urlies, the wife of Henry Forbes, of \\ oudlands, Southland. She had I>ecn staying with a friend at Taw# Flat, and it was at first thought that she was Mrs Reynolds of that place.