ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 August 1916, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

SUPPOSED POISONING. Christchurch, August 21, , K C. Kirk, a chemist at Sydenham l , « . years of^. age, a ' single .man,-;' found dead in bPd, The circumstanced point to poisoning. V' At the inquest, Walter Faircloughw ' dentist, stated that he found Kirk.dead; in bed this morning. Witness found ai bottle labelled with the name of a dead-* ly poison and a tumbler on a duchesej chest three yards from the bed. Tha body was completely covered with tha bed-clothes, Witness was an intimate friend of the deceased's family, and wished to have. a post-mortem >xaniind» tion, to clear up the cause of death. ') The Coroner said witness was quits right in asking for a post-mortem. understood that tha effects of this poison were very rapid, and if the bottlo of poison were found three yards away; from the lied it seemed extraordinary! if tile man jomuiittecl suicide that ha ' liS could have got hack to his bed ant* covered himself with ths bed-clothe» : -.SM The C o roil or ordered a post-inolteui and adjourned the inquest. ' tITTLE GIRL SHOT BY HE! ' BROTHER, " Duneilin, Augutt 'il, The police .have received advice tliaf Helm Jane Addie, aged 5 years, was t,;,, accidentally shot dead by her brother, aged 15 years, while' the latter was ~" shooting birds at Earnseleugh. Deceased came .round the corner just .W'':s3 brother lired n .shot. .