ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. (BY TELEGRAPH-PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 264, 31 July 1908, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. (BY TELEGRAPH-PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

DEATH; FROM HEART SEIZURE. Duncdin,\ July 30. Mary Black, a housemaid at the hospital, died suddenly last Tuesday night. She was laughing and joking with other employees, when' she suddenly fell down and expired. A post-mortem examination - showed . that death had' been caused by functional derange-: ment of tho heart's action. : : ' OLD MAN'SDEATH. . 1 : \Cambridge, July 30. Samuel Wilde,, aged 84, an old resident, died suddenly at Leamington; this morning while lacing bis boots. V - - . SUICIDE. ■ ' (BY TELZGKAPH—WIES3 ASSOCIATION.) - Invercarglll, July 30. An-,inquest was held to-day on the body' of* James Hancock, who shot himself'at Kapuka, yesterday. The evidence Mcated that a! nail had been driven into a tablo in deceased's whare, and that after aligning the gun with a cartridge case wedged l between the triggers ho it by : pulling the fore trigger against the, nail. Deceased was 33 years of age, and had a brother in the North Island. His experiments with an electric weed eradicator had been'very successful. '■ Deceased had told a man with whom ho had.meals that he-had seen a doctor who had given him only three months to live. Ho . had had a bad leg, and walked with a limp, the result of an accident. A vordict: of suicide while temporarily ii.sano was returned.