ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 90, 9 January 1908, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

, DEATH-OF AN INFANT. ' , > ' ' . EVIDENCE AT THE INQUEST. • ' ..(BY XELEOIIAPn—-riI.ESS ASSOOUTiON.), ■i: Atioklaiui,' January 8. ■■ At tho inquest on tliu body of tho infant child' of Irene Snodgrass, wliich wis found dead ,in bed at a boardilig-hnuse 011 December 13, the Coroner slated Mint 'the iiivesti-' gation mado by tho analyst was entirely negativo. 1 • ; " ■'. Mrs. Williams, boarding-houso keeper, ;statcd that on tho morning of December 13 a boarder named Stewart said to hPr, "I don't mind a child crying, but I object to a child. being smothered; in a blanket.'" Mrs. Snodgrass was late coming down to breakfast. Later, tho witness neard Mrs. Snodgrass scroam, and a maid told witness that the baby was dead. Mrs. Snodgrass said to witness, "My baby is dead," and expressed a wish that' it i should bo taken away to ascertain : from what it had died. Mrs. Snodgi ass had seemed well disposed towards hor child. Sho had admitted" to witness that a man. .who was living with her in tho house was not her husband. Drs. Bull and Hardio Neil expressed tho opinion that tho 'child had boon well cared for and well nourished.

Tho latter said ho had mado a. partial post mortem examination of tho body,' and found trace of inflammation, of tho intestines. Ho was informed by the polico that thcro would bo an inquiry, and decided' to proceed no further* Ho boli.ovod death had been caused by caatro-entoritis. .

Tho Coroner said ho. was satisfiod with Dr. Noil's ovidence.

Stow'art said his remark to Mrs.. Wilson was that ho objected to hoar tho child crying as if it was being smothered :in. tho bed clothes. Though ho hoard- tho child crying in a smothered way, ho did not mean to infer it was suffocated. • > , A verdict was returned that'death was duo to natural causes—Odhvulsioris.

: DIES IN A TRAIN. (by telegraph—hiess association.)

' CHrlstohurolij January 8. Charles Lacrosso, cook at-Uenmoro station, died this. morning, in tho Springfield to Christch'urch train. Ho. complained vyesterday of severe internal pains, and as remedies used did- not roliovo him, it was decided to solid him to the Chrfstchurch Hospital, but 110 died as stated. Lacrosso was a singlo man forky-fivo .years of ago.. Ho had "beciv a montlron tho station. ' .. ACCIDENTAL DEATH. ■ (BX;. TELEGBAPn—SPECIAL CORUESPONDEirT.) a .. Hastings, -January S. A vordiot of "Accidental death" was re- ■ turned at. tlio. inquest concorning .tho death of Edward. Largo, ■ who was killed by• boiilgrun - ovcr by tho wheel .'of a oart yosterday. '■ DItOAVNED WHILE BATHING. Msvj Plymouth, January 8. A young mau named Robort Firmston was drowned at Awakino.to-day. ,J-Io was bathing with his brother. It is .thought that ho was seized with "'cramp. The other man endeavoured to savo him, but was twico drafred nndor, and had;to relinquish tho task, reaching tho shore in. an exhausted stato. Firmston was a singlo man, aged 25 years. THE MISSING MOUNTAIN PORTER. Advices received at tho head office of tho Tourist Dopartment show that 110 'traces of Georgo Brown, tho" mountain -'porter, who was reported missing nt Mount Cook somo days ago, havo yet been discovered. It is now regarded as almost certain that he was accidentally drowned in the Hooker River.