ACCIDENTS & DEATHS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 82, 17 January 1928, Page 4

ACCIDENTS & DEATHS.

INFANT FOUND STRANGLED. (Per Press Association., WELLINGTON, This Day. The inquest into the circumstances of the death of the unidentified infant whose body was found in the harbour on Sunday morning was held before the Coroner (Mr W. G. Riddell, S.M.) Dr. Wright was of opinion that the child breathed once. A string hung loosely round 1 the waist and neoßTof wie child, but there were no marks of external violence. The Coroner remarked that it was impossible to say whether suffocation took place in Wellington or elsewhere. His finding was that deceased was found in Wellington harbour on January 15, the cause of death being suffocation from an unknown cause on or about November 15, 1927.

CLERGYMAN KILLED.

LEVEL CROSSING SMASH. PALMERSTON NORTH, Jan. 10. A car driven by the Rer. W. S. Tremaine, Anglican minister at Rongotea, was struck by a train at the RongoteaLongburn crossing at one o’clock this afternoon. Mr Tremaine received injuries to which he succumbed in the hospital to-night. The crossing was the scene of a recent fatal accident when Mr Guthrie, a butcher at Longburn, was killed. Mr Tremaine leaves a wife and two children.

He came to New Zealand from the McKenzie River Country, where he was a missionary among the Eskimos for five years.

WAIKATO WOMAN’S DEATH

HAMILTON, January 16.

An inquest was held to-day into the circumstances connected with the death of Ethel Kennedy Rochford, aged 39, married, who died shortly after admission to the Waikato Hospital on December 31.

Evidence was given that in response to a message a neighbour went to Mrs Rochford, who said her condition had been brought on by herself.

Dr. Fulton said he had conducted a post mortem examination. Death, in his opinion, was due to' the use of some strong irritant, which caused shock and gradual failing of the heart’s action and congestion of the lungs. It was impossible to sev whether an instrument had been used. The doctor expressed the opinion that the irritant had not been self-applied. The Coroner returned a verdict in accordance with Dr. Fulton’s evidence, that death was due to the use of some irritant, causing shock and gradual failing of the heart’s action and congestion of the lungs.

FARMER FOUND SHOT.

OTARI, January 16

James George Poynter, a farmer, of Te Haro, was found dead last night with a trigger of a shot-gun strapped to his foot. The shot had entered the head. Deceased was well-known in racing circles, having; owned and trained horses.

MAN iC;LL2D BY TRAIN.

AUCKLAND, This Day

An unidentified man was killed on the railway line at Mount- Eden early this morning. He was walking along the rails when he was overtaken by a train bound for the city at the crossing opposite the gaol. The engine was on top of him when he was seen by the driver. The man was about 40 years of age, and carried a worker’s railway ticket.

DEATH OF AN INFANT.

WANGANUI, This Day

The infant child of Major Bremner, of the Defence Department, who is under transfer from Hawera to Christchurch, died shortly after being taken off the train at Waver ley yesterday. Oii Sunday night the girl, who was 174 months old. ate a portion of a tablet. A doctor who was called said there was nothing poisonous in the tablets, and that the child would have abdominal pains, when she should be given oil and milk. The child cried and vomited during the night. The doctor was again called in the morning and washed out the child’s stomach, saying she would be all right. The travel on the tram developed convulsions and the child died at the doctor’s room. The Coroner (Mr Barton.. S.M.). said there had been at least two similar cases in recent years involving various kinds of naphthaline tablets. Children after treatment appeared to get all right and died. He was anxious to see whether some- remedy could H not be found. Tlie inquiry was adjourned for a week.

SUDDEN DEATH AT WORK. CARTERTON, This Day. Mr Richard Ambler, a single man, aged about 56. engaged as a slaugliternian at the Waingawa meat works, suddenly expired this morning when at work on his second lamb, falling forward on the board.