ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 February 1920, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

BODY WASHED ASHORE. By Telegraph.—Prcsi; Association. Christclmrch, Feb. 10. The police have been informed that a body has been washed ashore at Cheviot at 'the 6ccne< of the Tainui disaster. The body is much decomposed and is not identifiable. It will be conveyed by pack-horse to Cheviot township, for the inquest. The missing member* of the orew are Captain Cowan and Senman Howard.

INQUESTS AT WANGANUI. »

Wanganui, Fob. 10.

At the inquest on MUa Melville, who was drowned in tlio Wanganui ilivor after falling from a train, evidence was given that deceased's mental condition had not been normal. The friond with whom she stayed at Bulls stated that Miss Melville was normal when she left on Friday to come to Wanganui to transact business and fully intended to return the same evening. The verdict was that deceased met her death by falling from the train while crossing the Aramoho Bridge, no blame being attachable to anyone. John Dale, a married .man, living apart from his wife, aged 59, was found yesterday dead in his bedroom with the gas turned on. At the inquest a verdict was returned of death from gas poisoning while temporarily insane. ' SAD DEATH OF A CHILD. Giaborne, Feb. 10. Gorman Kelly, aged 14 months, the son of Hugh Kelly, an employee at the Waipaoa Freezing Works, fell down n bore 17 feet deep and 10 inched in diameter, which his father had sunk for water. An endeavor was made to extricate the child by means of ropes and hooks, but the narrowness of the aperture rendered this impossible.' The freezing works hands then set to work to get the child out, and after a long and arduous task, this Was a«corflplisJ>ed, but the infant, when recovered, was unconscious arid in a pitiable condition. Be died shortly afterwards, frisborne, Last Night.

At an. inquest held at Kaiteratahi into the death of Norman Roy Kelly, aged fourteen months, who died as a result of falling down an uncompleted waterbore, the father stated that on Sunday hia two children, Percy, three years, and Norman, fourteen months, were playing in the yard, when suddenly Percy called out, "Normie is down the hole." The hole referred to was a nine-inch bore, seventeen feet deep, sunk for a well. He got the infant up within four feet of the top on two occasions, but the hook he was using gave way, and the child dropped to the bottom again. A doctor gave evidence that death was due partly to shock and partly to asphixiation. A verdict was returned according to the medical evidence. DEATH FROM BULLET WOUND. Wellington, Last Night. Richard Fenby, who was admitted to the hospital on the morning of February 7th, suffering from a bullet "Wound in the head, died to-night.