ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 190, 10 August 1904, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

An inquest was held at the Auckland Hospital on August 2nd on the body of James Alexander Irving, a waiter employed at The Dive, who sustained fatal injuries through falling or jumping from the cemetery bridge. The jury found that death was due to injuries selfinflicted while mentally deranged. Fireman Gladding, a young man 21 years of age, who sustained severe injury at the fire which destroyed Morrin and Co.'s warehouse, died at the Auckland Hospital on the 23rd ult. He was a son of ex-Superintendent Gladding, and had been connected with the brigade about two years.

A man named Harold Beaumont Harrop, who was awaiting trial iv Mount Eden gaol as a burglar and highwayman, hanged himself from a window grating of his cell during the night of Friday last, using his braces and handkerchief as a noose. Harrop fought with the Seventh New Zealand Contingent in the Boer War, and during the lighting he was shot in the hip by a bullet, which passed through to the other hip, and Mas there extracted. He was a native of Timaru, but latterly resided with his parents in Auckland.