ACCIDENTS & DEATHS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 10169, 28 July 1924, Page 8

ACCIDENTS & DEATHS

SOUTHERN FATALITIES. (Per Press Association.) DUJSEDIN, This Day. A youth named Peter Erlandson died during a football match between Balclutha and Clinton, played at Clinton on Saturday. He sat down at halftime, and when a companion asked him if he was not feeling well, he collapsed and died almost immediately. John Lillie, who had been in illhealth, became seriously ill on Friday, and died on Saturday. He admitted to Dr. Evans that he had taken poison on Thursday. A verdict of death from poison taken when temporarily insane was returned.

MINE WORKER KILLED. GREYMOUTH, This Day. The death occurred last night of Joseph Higson, a victim of an accident on Wednesday last at Binn’s mine, when he was struck by a rake of trucks when working. at the bottom of the jig. He received severe injury to the head, and was taken to the Grey River Hospital. The deceased was 57 years old. YOUNG MAN’S DEATH. AUCKLAND, This Day. n Lionel Storrs, a single man, .aged 23, was found dead in his room in an apartment house, Sentinel btreeu, Ponsonby, on Sunday. His head was wrapped in pillow-cases, and gas was escaping from a tube near his mouth. He had apparently been dead since Friday. At the inquest the coroner returned a verdict of suicide by gas poisoning. Storr at one time was a steward on the lonic, and latterly had been doing casual work for a city land agent.