ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1221, 1 September 1911, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

THE SUICIDE AT TE WIIARAU. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Carterton, August 30. At the Carterton Court yesterday, before the Coroner, .Mr. .T. T. M. llornsby, an inquest was held on tho body of tho man Michael Byrne, found drowned in a creek at Te Wharuu. The evidence showed that deceased had been worried oyer money matters. lie also suffered from insomnia. The medical evidence showed that decen-ed died from asphyxiation, caused by drowning. A verdict of suicide while temporarily insane was returned. INVESTIGATING. Te Kiliti, August 30. The death of a young man named —. Edmonds i> reported from n place three miles out nf Te Kuiti, the circumstances pointing' to suicide. The police are investigating. An inquest will be held tonight. Deceased camo from Auckland a few months ago. FATAL TRAP ACCIDENT. Dunedin, August 30. i An accident occurred on the Leitli Valley j?oad, three or four miles from I)un- ' odin. this afternoon, whereby Mrs. C. B. M. Branson, licensee of Branson's Hotel, was killed and her son severely injured. Tho two had been for a drive, and while returning tho son got out to get some flax, leaving t' e reins with his mother. While lie was out of the trap the horse bolted, and though lie managed to chamber over the back of the trap, the horse ran over tho edge of a bank into the creek Mrs. Brtmson lind her neck broken, and was dead when taken to' the hospital. The son is uoconscious, but is expected to recover. SUICIDE AT TE KUITI. Te Kuiti, August 31. Harold Edmunds, 22 years of age, committed suicide on Hunt's farm, three miles out of Tc Kuiti, at two o'clock yesterday morning. Evidence at the inquest showed that deceased had sliowji signs of being overy despondent. The verdict was that death resulted from a self-inflicted wound, deceased being of unsound mind. FALL FROM A LOFT. Gisborne, August 31. John Chisholm, aged 40. died from injuries receivtd through a fall from a loft in stables, where he was living. An inquest was deemed unnecessary.

THE UNKNOWN DEAD. Auckland, August 31. Til? (lead body of an eldsrly man was found in a doorway. The only clue to identity was a letter in his pocket addressed Dingley King. The address was portly obliterated. A iiian. whose name is unknown, died in one of the city tramears this afternoon. OCTOGENARIAN'S DEATH. Hokitika, August 31. Edward Burnett, aged £0 years, was found dead in his hut at Kanieri Forks this morning. ' CHILD FATALLY BURNED. Nelson, August 31. Information was received in town today that a child named Ivuss. daughter of a resident of Tui, succumbed to injuries sustained through her nightdress catching fire. SUDDEN DEATH. Dunedin, August 31. At 1 o'clock this afternoon Mr. John Edmond Hay. 76 years of age, boarded a tramcar at Cargill's corner, and just as the car readied the shed points he leaned over towards his wife, who was sitting beside him, and suddenly expired.