CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16358, 1 November 1918, Page 11

CASUALTIES.

, ♦ SUICIDE AT ASHBURTON. ■ .rode man named Edward Ernest ™Xi,Ta"ed 34 years, residing with JK&ntl at Hampstcad, Ash burton, vlTnnd hanging from a. beam m the yesterday morning. The dc®#hS his breakfast about 8 o'clock the house expressing his m-?-rirni of coin" out on his bicycle. On into the vard about 9 o'clock his Her found Chat the cyclo had not taken, and on going into the Sbonse later found the body hang- • - I,* a piece of binding twine. An finest was held during the afternoon, SSore Mr James Cow, District Cor"Tgj. and a verdict of suicide whil*j temporarily insane was returned. 0Q "Wednesday morning Mr A. A. Jones superintendent of the "Woolston Fire Brigade, was starting the motor fire-engine, when it back-fired and fractured wa left wrist. His injury was attended to at the Christchurch Hosenquiry was held by Mr F. _V. Frazer, S.M.. at Wellington, on Wednesday. into the tragic death of Charles Dowsett, at the "Wellington ' about midnight on October I ' 28th. Dr. C. F. Pattie deposed that I death was duo to. loss of blood and shock self-inflicted wound with a razor. Th o father of tho doceased said Kin gon was a single man, 34 years of ae®. He- had returned from the front about a month or five week« ago. Ho had not had himself m proper control, and was at times very depressed. The ( news of tho death of a mate at the front upset him very much, and though 'he had never threatened to commit .snicide he had said that ho would be (better ofi the earth than on it. The /Coroner returned a verdict that death I was. due to shock and haemorrhage following a wound in the throat, selfinflicted. while in a 6tato of severe depression duo to war experiences. (FBZS3 ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) GORE, October 31. William Latham, aged 55, a farmer, trSB out shooting rabbits this morning m'th a pea riflo which exploded while he was getting through .a gorse fence. The bullet lodged rbove the right ear. He was found dead shortly afterwards. He leaves a widow and family of ten. fwo eons are at tho front.