ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 June 1919, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

FALL FROM A HORSE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, June 16. Thomas Halloran, aged 35, a single man, was found on the footpath in Lome Street, having apparently fallen and fractured his skull. He died in the hospital.

A WOMAN'S SUICIDE. Aucklatyl, June 16. Mrs. Elizabeth Flynn was found dead at her residence, Franklin Road, with a coat over her face and a rubber tube attached to a gas bracket near her mouth. Sho.had evidently been asphyxiated. She had been despondent since her illness during the epidemic! DEATH FROM HEART FAILURE. Masterton, June 16. At the inquest on the death of Mr. W. L. Falconer, the coroner returned ft. verdict that deceased met his death from heart failure caused by shock through a collision with a motor cyclist at Manihera.

KILLED WHILE SHOOTING. Ashburton, June 16. Ernest Allen Hatchard, aged 19, a returned soldier, went hare shooting yesterday morning, and was found in the evening with the top of his head blown off.

KNOCKED DOWN BY MOTOR OAR. Christchurch, June 16. A strange affair occurred on Saturday night. A two-seater motor car driven along a street adjacent to the business section of the city knocked down a man named William Pickering, aged 75. The driver of the car disappeared before hfe could be identified, and the car was taken later by an unknown person to a nenr-by garage. The car had been left by the owner outside the King Edward 'Barracks, and, it is supposed, was stolen by the person who was driving when the accident occurred. Pickering was taken to ft» hospital. The matter is in the hands of the police.

A YOUNG MAN'S END. Chrlstchurch, Last Night. A young man named Thomas Hood has been missing from the farm of his uncle at Rakaia since June 6, and yesterday his body was found in four feet of water in an irrigation stream. There were stones in the pockets, and a kerosene tin containing stones was tied bv a wire round the neck. On the bank were his watch and a few last message!. Deceased was 26 years of age, and his parents reside at Edendale, Otago. He loft with the Main Body and was at the landing on Gallipoli, being subsequently wounded in the shoulder. 'He returned to New Zealand about two years ago.

SUICIDE AT MOUNT EDEN.

, Auckland, Last Night. Charles Theodore Victor Campbell, aged 31 years, a eoachwright of Invercanrill, committed suicide t'o-day on top of Mount Eden. Deceased, who was visiting his brother (both being returned soldiers), and, when on Mount Eden, he made some excuse and left his brother for a moment. When the latter went in search of him he found deceased had cut the niflm artery l n the left arm with a razor. He died almost immediately.

INQUESTS ON UNKNOWN INFANTS,

Christchureh, Last Klglit. The coroner (Mr. g. K . McCarthy) old two.inquiries to-day regarding the deaths of two male infants. In the first case that of a male infant found on thebank of tile Heathcote River on May 25, the police stated that every effort had been made to ascertain who was the mother of the child, but without success. i C T ner i ret,,rnin K a ve-lict that the body of an infant had been found near the Heathcoto River, had it reho m at f tLe , bod y of the child bore ho marks of violence. It waa enclosed hi I ui. ld had livcd - » nd had been chn?i i« 6 t Y Wboever Placed the child in that exposed position did not intend that the child should live. n regard to the finding of the body of an infant in the Avon River, new Victoria Street Bridge, yesterday, Dr. • Pearson, pathologist at the public hospital, saul the body was in an advanced Mage of decomposition. A thick string as attaohed to the body around the ec , the right shoulder and across the chest, and it was tied under the left shoulder The body was that of a newDorn full-time male child, which had i ™ short P erio ' l . probably a few hours. The body had been placed In the water after death. It had not been drowned. The following verdict was returned: I find there was found in the Avon River, near Victoria Street Bridge, the dead body of a male unknown child, which had only lived a few hours after mrth. I further find that the said child had been placed in the river by some person unknown with a view to concealing it, and that it had been neglected by those responsible for its care with a .view to causing its daati,','