CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17716, 19 March 1923, Page 12

CASUALTIES.

i .——* —:— ELDERLY MAN'S SUICIDE. < ■ / r 'A verdict that he committed suicide by cutting 'his throat with a reaping hook was returned at the inquest concerning the death of r'nlllin Clement a married man, 63 years of age, on Saturday morning. Mr Wyvern Wilson was the Uoroner. Deceased was found dead at his residence, o4 Bienheim Kiccarton, on Friday morning. i>r. Isaac Thompson said he had attended fcjohumaciier tot heart trouble. On'the iast occaa.on on which he had Been hun, he seemed to be worrying about thejstate of his healtn, and fearing ne was going to die. n'.mily Jieria Schumacher, said that until three week's ago her husband bad been working in tho country. Whenhe came home he was not feeling well, and he had received medicai attention. On Friday morning Bhe gave him a cup of .tea and some oread and milk. He" then went outside, and shortly afterwards, when witness went out, she 6aw him.slip from a sack on which he had been sittihg. A reaping hook fell from his hand. . ~-i Dr. Crooke stated that Schumacher was dead when he arrived. The blood vessels in hie neck had been severed. The Coroner returned a verdict accordingly.

"A man named Edward Smith, of Kekerangu, attempted to commit suicide on Thursday night by inflicting wounds on his throat and taking poison. He was conveyed to Kaikpura- Hospital, where he is making a good .recovery. At the Kaikoura races on Friday Edward Garrett attempted to cross the course after the sixth race, and was knocked down by a trotter returning to the paddock. He was rendered unconscious, but after a while came to, and beyond a severe shaking received! no further injuries. Stewart, the rider, who came off when the horse fell on Garrett, received minor injuries to a shoulder.

Joseph Richardson, farm labourer, died suddenly at Cust yestenray afternoon. He had been an inmate of theCashmere Sanatorium in 1920" and was discharged in September, 1921, apparently in excellent health. He became unwell yesterday, .and before a doctor could be procured jhe succumbed. He leaves a wife andf two children. An inquest will be held at Cust this afternoon, j Ernest Audibert, aged 45 years, a married man, residing at 245 Madras street, died in the Christ-church -Hospital yesterday. Deceased, who was a vulcaniser by trade, was admitted to the mstitution on Wednesday. An inquest will be held. (PSESS ASSOCIATION TELEGBA2IS.) GISBORNE, March 18. A Native named Turanga Hinaki 70 years of aee, was thrown from a buggy in which he was driving alone - on Tatapouri hill, near Gisborne, last evening. He was attended to almost immediately but died in a few minutes. At the inquest this afternoon, the Coroner Mr E. C. Levrey. returned a irerdict of accidental death. Evidence was civen that the seat of the bnggy was defective, and apparentlv collapsftd on a- rough place on the hill. "Deceased was perfectly sober at the- time