ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 April 1919, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

WOMAN BANGS HERSELF. < By Telegraph.—Press Association, Auckland, April 19, Josephine Greene, aged 34, was found dead hanging in an outhouse at n« residence at Onehunga. . She had been suffering from insomnia after influent* and for some months had been very despondent. At an inquest a verdict ot suicide while temporarily insane WM returned.

A SEAMAN'S SUICIDE. Auckland, Last Nighi Oacar Wilhelm Nelson, a seaman, about 3(5 years of ag\ shot himself with » revolver on Saturday night. He had been depressed for some time, and had threatened to kill himself previously in the presence of a woman. At the inquest a verdict of suicide was returned.

THE MANNERS STREET SHOOTING VERDICT. Wellington, Last Nieht. The inquest on Hczekiah wattef .Tames Turner, who was shot in the lavatory bchjnd a billiard saloon in Manners Street on April 10, wa/ concluded to-day, when a verdict was returned that (he deceased died from cerebral destruction and haemmorhagc, caused by a bullet wound in the head; that the bullet *lvich killed deceased was discharged from p revolve: then in the possession of Robert John Martin, and that at the time ot the discharge deceased was endeavoring to obtain possession of the revolver. The coroner added that he woVild not, at present, make a more definite finding, partly by reason of the fact that the. men concerned were under the influence of liquor, and partly on account of the excitement and confusion, that they were unable t" give a precise account of what occurred.