SUDDEN DEATHS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2562, 1 April 1887, Page 2

SUDDEN DEATHS.

An anally 3u3dtiii.,doath lmppeiiod yesterday to a railway, laborer named Thomas Crotty,' wlueh ''litfs addod another to the long liat of >icthns .'of drink. Poor Crotty baa past fortnight been havipg a'§®ng bout in Masterton, and : has before tho li.M. under .tho John M.alone on • eliavgea of ,§rankonneaa. The first time lib paid tho. usual fine, but.. 011 Monday last/«(having locked up eineo Saturday nighflSue was discharged with" a; few.. ; wor®f advice from tho R.M, " Havin^uQ money to take him buck to his ayovlc on tho railway, ooußttuotion' between Maurioevilie and Ekotahunaithe police kindly gavo him a few 'shillings to pay his way, but it appears that the heavy bout he had in town had 3 done its work, and the poor fellow'.when ho arrived at the works-was unable to do a hands-turn, Having become worse on Wednesday night, it was thought advisable to send him to the Mastodon Hospital, and he was placed in ono of Cobb & Co.'s coaohes yesterday afternoon, but died within ten'' 1 minutes after he had been in the vehicle,. and he now lies at the railway station, Mangamahoe. Constable ' Salmon proceeded to the Mangamahoe to-day to take charge of the body whieh will bo brought into Mastorton tf'nd a poet mortem examination made, and an inquest held to-morrow moping,

A painfully sudden death hntinoned last evening at tho Upper PlaipMKes-; terday morning the wife of Ifr Aflpm Budd was confined of W : and everything appeared,, to kigMßff.li.' on well until about o'silook in:'^' afternqpn, when Mrs Budd- was oyereome with faintness. A-messenger ' wa's' Wnt fl for Dr Beard,- but owing to the distance from town, and the doctor being away from home at the time, tie poor woman had expired half an hour before his araival.at 5.80. ' The caso iiß an exceptionally sad one 1T the huei'Band being lefTmth 'nine children, including the twins, 'and'.'is a' hard*, working industriousjsettleiy who hq| . ■>; had a liVri struggle to £"j ,increasing!' family, utg t ■ smiji; fam on the pff this loss' ' will - be - Although therajwiis' no doctor ia v ' attendance at the time of the confinement, the doroner <!ps. : ftqt think it necessary to hold at inqpt. . • . 'rr;;:*. \