ACCIDENTS & DEATHS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLVI, Issue 10672, 17 February 1926, Page 8

ACCIDENTS & DEATHS

DEATH BY ?0!SON. > (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHCRCH, This Day. A married woman., Gertrude Agnes Hrrington, residing at Sawyer's Arms Road. Panama, died on Sunday as the result of taking a drink containing mfiactieide. v Deceased had been m bad liealth for some time. SKULL AND LIMBS BROKEN. AUCKLAND, February 16. Mr George Robinson is in hospital an a "very serious condition, haying a fractured skull and ». broken right .arm and right leg caused by the bicycle he was riding colliding with a motor van. A SEAMAN DROWNED.

INVERCARGILL, February 16. . A "seaman named Thomas Pratt, aaed twenty, fell overboard from the gotare to-day as the boat was coming up the channel to the Invercargill wharf. A boat was lowered, but a strong wind was blowing, and the body disappeared. Pratt's parents are dead, but it is understood that his guardians reside at Dunedin. INEXPLICABLE S.UICIDE. TAI&APE, February 16. An inquest was held this afternoon concerning the death of Ivan Alexander Newdick, single, aged twenty-two, a cleaner on the New Zealand Railways, who was found hanging by a sash corci suspended from the ceiling of a occupied by him. M*f>*g£ ed that deceased was in. good spirits last evening, and was elated at his promotion to fireman and the prospect of making his first trip on the footplate the following day. The body of deceased was found this morning by a, main with whom he was staying and apparently he had been dead about eight hours. A note left by deceased stated:—"! am.mad doing this act, for mmy senses I would'nt have done it. God forgive me, but I can't bear the weight on my heart," No evidence was given to explain any reason for the i ash act, and it was stated that deceased always was cheerful and contented. The verdict was that deceased committed suicide by hanging while temporarily insane.

YOUNG ; -MAN FOUND SHOT. GREYMOUTH. February 16. Alexander Muir, twenty-two years of age, was found dead on his bed at his home by his mother this afternoon at Kaiata township. A double-barrelled gun was alongside the body, and ie had been shot in the abdomen. It is understood that some years ago he contracted sleeping sickness and since had been mentally ailing and depressed. « A BODY RECOVERED. CHRISTOHUROH, This Day. The body of E. Cameron Smith, who ■was drowned ia the Wadmakiriri on January 31, wwi found yesterday morning. Messrs 0. West and W. Andrews, while walking along the riyerbank just below the railway bridge, Observed the body floating in the -middle ot the stream.