ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1188, 25 July 1911, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

DEATH FROM BURNS. SAD AFFAIR AT CLYDE QUAY.

An inquest, was held at 174 Clyde Quay by Mr. W. G. Ritldell, S.M., into the circumstances surrounding the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Brodie, who was found dead in the dining-room of hex residence yesterday morning. Deceased was 66 years of ago , and had resided in Clyde Quay with her husband for many years. Constable M'Kclvey represented -the police at the inquest.

Charles Wm. Brodie, husband of the deceased, stated that, on Thursday last, deceased had had a fainting fit while at Island Bay, in company with her son and daughter. She was. brought home in a taxi-cab, and had recovered from thfi effects of the fit next day. She had been addicted to drink for the past twenty years. Witness Inst saw deceased alive at about twenty minutes to 12 on Sunday night. Ho went to her room at. about 7.(10 a.m. yesterday, and then found that sho was not there. ■ On coming _ downstairs, witness found her lying in tho dining-room, and immediately rang up Dr. Ewart.

Dr. Ewart, who had attended deceased in October and November of last year, stated that, at that time, sho was suffering from injuries to the head, and was in a low condition, bodily and mentally, due to over-indulgence in alcohol. Witness was called to deceased's residence yesterday about 8 a.m., and found her lying on tho hearth-rug, with her back to the fire and her head on an armchair. Sho was dead, and had been dead for some hours. Witness found extensive burns. The gas stove was "full on," and these burns would have been caused by the heat of the stove. Death was duo to shock from the burns, aggravated by deceased's weak state of health. A verdict was returned in accordanco with the medical testimony, the coroner adding that tho evidence pointed to the burns having been accidental. DROWNED AT RONA BAY. AN OLD AGE PENSIONER. A' telephone message received at the Police Station last evening reported that a man had been drowned at Rona Bay shortly after the arrival of the ferry steamer from Wellington. Later in the evening Constable Simpson, who is in charge of the Eastbourne Station, brought Iho body to tho morgue, where an inf|Uoff. will be held to-day.

Deceased was an old age pensioner, named Edward 'Colton, 80 years of age, who resided in. a hut on Dr. F. W. Mackenzie's property at Rona Bay. He came into town yesterday to give evidence in a case of alleged cruelty to a dog, heard at the Magistrate's Court. He returned to the Bay by the ferry steamer Duchess, which left town at 5.20 p.m., and reached Jtona Bay wharf at about 6 p.m. Colton was walking off the wharf when he unexpectedly stepped over the edge. By that time the ferry steamer had headed for the Day's Bay wharf, but Captain Watchlin pnt back, lowered a boat, and threw out a lifebuoy. Two of tho deck hands manned tho boat, and soon had the old man out of the water and on board tho Duchess. Artificial respiration was at once attempted, but without success, and Dr. H. J. M'Lean, of Vivian Street, who was a passenger, pronounced life extinct.

SAWMILL HAND KILLED. (Br Tclejraph—Press AssocLation.l Auckland, July 24. Albert Wolmer, a sawmill hand, was killed at Maringa on Saturday. It is believed he was run over by a truck. DROWNING FEARED. Gisborne, July 24. A man named Douglas, a newcomer to the district, is supposed to have been tiro (mod at Takapau. Search parties are out. A STRANGE COINCIDENCE. Hastings, July 24. At the inquest on Charles William Timms, killed on Saturday night, the verdict was: "That at the time of the accident Timms was lying close alongside tho railway track, under tho influence of liquor, and that no blame was attachable to any of the Railway officials." By a strange coincidence, the first man to reach tho hotly after (he accident was deceased's brother, who expected to pick up a stranger. TWO BOTS AND A PEA-RIFLE. Auckland, July 24. Tho danger of small boys carrying peariilcs was again exemplified this afternoon. A boy named Arthur E. Ashcroft and a companion were playing with a rifle at renrose. when the charge accidentally went nlf, and tho bullet entered the side of Ashcroft's body. Though tho lad's condition is serious, the accident is not expected to prove fatal. SERTOUS .MOTOR CYCLE ACCIDENT. fEy Tclcurarh.-Suecial Correspondent.) Palmcrston, July 23. A serious accident occurred to }f r . George Luxford, land agent, of Palmerston, yesterday. About noon he was riding his motor cycle along Main Street, near the. railway station, when the machine skidded, and went over, falling on Mr. Luxford, and causing a compound fracture of the leg above the ankle. He i s IMW doing as well as can he expected in a private hospital.

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