CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15894, 7 May 1917, Page 4

CASUALTIES.

. \ SUICIDE BY HANGING

An inquest was held at the Hospital last evening by Mr T. A. B. Bailey, Coroner, on tho body of Charles Ilurden Worsfold, which was found hanging in a shed at Sumner yesterday.

Tho deceased, who was a single man, was 26 years of age, and had no relatives in the Dominion. He came out from Home about two years ago. He had been an inmate of the Khodes Convalescent Home for a month, leaving there on April 21st, and ' going to the Salvation Army Home, Addington, from which he disappeared two days later. Nothing -was seen or heard of him till yesterday, when his body was found hanging in a shed up the valley behind the School for the Deaf,' by one of the inmates of that institution. Prior to coming to the Dominion Worsfold had undergone an operation for appendicitis, bnt too late to.prevent the poison getting into the system, and this caused him to become depressed at times.

Deceased left a note, written on the margin of a eopy of "The Press," of April 23rd, giving tho address of his father, and stating- that owing to the state of his health, he had decided to do away with himself. He also gave instructions as to the disposal of his effects.

A verdict of death by hanging while temporarily of unsound mind was returned. Charles Hay, aged 72, employed in the wool store of Messrs Pync and Co., died suddenly on Saturday. He went to work as usual, but shortly after 8.30 a.m.-he was found lying dead on the floor of the store. At the inquest, held by Mr T. A. B. Bailey, Coroner, a verdict of death from heart failure was returned. (PJIESS ASSOCIATION- TEI.KGTI*MS.) AUCKItAND, May 5. John Henry Porter, an elderly ntan residing at I'arnell, was found by liis sou with, his throat cut. A razor was found alongside him. Deceased had been suffering from heart and head troubles, CiiLtORNE, May 5. Charles Caldcr, a well-known lighterman, was drowned ii: the roadstead this afternoon, by overboard from the barge Haku. A man named Edward Hoare, aged 63, a resident of Patutahi, was run over by a motor car last night and killed TIMARU, May G. The adjourned inquest on the death of a girl, aged eleven, named Maloney, who was drowned in "the Opihi river, near Pleasant Point, on Anzac Day, showed that she and a companion of the same age, frr'hf-c-ned by seeing two boys with a gun, attempted to cicfes the nvor, and both were carried down. Oue was drowned and the other helped out by a man' who happened to see her struggling. The boys said they saw the but thought they were paddling, and took little notice, and went on. When the man first saw the girls thev were on their feet, and he supposed thev were paddling. The Coroner (Mr Wrvern concluded that the girls'were frightened or excited, and slioned and fell, but he did not think thev'had anv cause to be frightened of the bovs, who had no intention to frighten them K verdict of accidentally drowned with no biamc attachable to anyone was returned.