ACCIDENT AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2018, 27 March 1914, Page 8

ACCIDENT AND FATALITIES

SUFFOCATED IN MUD. '": INQUEST ON OLrTMAN'S DEATH. yesterday afternoon, Mr. D; fj» A, ; Cooper, g.JJ. (Coroner), held an hi-' quest GOiicornifig the death of Carl Neifeon., 'ivbose body was found 5-ii the. mud on the reclamation .area at the Thorndon breastwork on Tuesday morning. Soiiior-'Se.rgeau.t M'uUauey i f cpr-e.-swited the .police, . ■ James Jerro'ld RoseingTayc, warder, of Welliagtoii Prison, said that he had identified deceased as Oa-ri Ne-Hsorh Witness last saw hint alive 'at the ga'o.l at 10 o'clock.<m the .morning of Ma£eh 10. • Deceased, had just completed serving » term of imprisonment,' and was discharged on that date, Ho was 12 years Of age. David Henry Leeompte, labourer, said that he saw deceased in MflloSworth I Street o» Monday night, March '23. [Deceased was soher., hut' witness did not s-ipoafc to him.. On. the following ■morning witness assisted in fccoveriitg the. body from the mud.

Robert James Pulling, a. eadet, from the Salvation Army Training Coltcgo, stated that deceased had approached Mm oil Thorndon Quay oil Monday afternoon, and had asked for' money to get & meal. Witness had taken him to a. refreshment room and paid for a meal-for him. Witwss then went to find same Salvation Al'fiiy. officers, with a view to seeing v.-hat eatt-ld lie done for him, bat, when they -returned, deceased had disappeared. Michael Shortis said that ho saw deceased in the. mud,'and informed the police. Constable Thompson described the recovery oF the body. There wore Ho mark's of violence, and, in witness's, opinion, death was due to suffocation. The Coroner returned a verdict to- tho effect that deceased dkd from sttffoea* ; tion,

SEVER*; STORE ACCIDENT. George Hope, n s&gto man, employed t»y the rJarbqiiT Board, was admitted to the Hospital early last even.ij.jg suffer* ing from fracture of the skull. The in* jvaed man was employed in the Harbour Board's bonded store'and fell from the first flosr to the bottom of tho lift well. At a laio hour list night lie was reported to he unconscious. FATAL DIVE. DECEIVED AS TO DEPTH. (Sr 'jel«£raplj,—fries Ajß.qiiliOonJ Napfer, March 26. Frederick Martin, a young married man, dived from a, boatshed, 12 feet high, into two foot of water, at Roi'aito, near Napior 'teKiiight, and dislocated his neck. Deceased was deceived as to the, depth of the water and struck the bottom.. Death was instantaneous, SUDDEN & FATAI FITS. Roofton, March 26, ; .1. D. Gil tics, lata manager, of Tymons I and Co., who had been suffering from insomnia, vrcsit for a walk yesterday; morning so»o distance out accompanied I by a constable, and wnsi seized with fits, dying yesterday afteruoois. Dc--"n«*d had been here nearly a year.