CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18102, 18 June 1924, Page 10

CASUALTIES.

INQUEST.

A verdict of death 'from heart f iiare was returned by -Mr .Wyveni Wilson, District Coroner,, yesterday, at tho adjourned inquest into the circumstances concerning the death of James Dumphy, 73 years of age, a night-watchman employed by the. Canterbury * Freezing Company, who died at his lodgings at I Belfast on Saturday morning, Dr.; A. | B. Pearson, pathologist at the Christchurch Hospital, who made' ; a post; j mortem examination of the body, said I that tho cause of death was heart failure associated with miocarditis accelerated by acute gastritis. The Coroner returned a formal verdict in accordance with the medical evidence. ' (PEES 3 ASSOCIATION TZIJSORAMa.) PALMERSTON N., June.l 7. As a result of an accident while /unloading transmission poles at Ashhurst fir the Manawatu-Oroua Power Board, J. Prbctor lies in hospital lit" a _ dangerous condition with sever© injuries to tho head, and his companion, J, Turner, with a compound fracture, or the leg and' minor injuries.. . John Joseph Maurice Isaacs, aged 46 years, collapsed suddenly in the street at 9 o'clock this evening as he was turning from the' Winter Show,-:death ensuing shortly afterwards. - He had not previously been ilt ill-health. He leaves a widow and five; children. "WELLINGTON, June 17. The dead body of Evelyn Thompson, a -young domestic servant employed' at "Hataitai, was found by a. Visitor to the residence. Her emnloj'ers were aSyay at the timo. The visitor on looking through the kitchen; wijidow, saw the debased lying on the floor near an open gas stove. ' She Bnmmoned- aid and* an entry was effected, but the girl was found to be dead.