ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 79, 5 April 1910, Page 25

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

[BY TELEOBAPH — MIESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHUROH, 4th April. At the inquest on Mary Brown, an ex-inmate of To Oranga Home, who died in the hospital yesterday, a postmortem examination showed that the cause of death was phosphorus poisoning, and a verdict was returned that deceased committed nuicide by swallowing a solution of matches whilst in an | unsound state of mind. TIMARU, 4th April. While Mi", and Mrs. A. E. Kcrr were driving home this evening their horse ntnmbled at Park Hill, and they and their child were thrown out of the vehicle. Mr. Kerr was bruised and dazed, Mrs. Kerr had her collarbone broken, and the child* face was painfully cut. CHRISTCHURCH, 4th April. Tho body found on the bank of tho Waimakariri last Friday, which is lying at the morgue, was viewed this moming by a brother and a sister of the young man Robert Barker, who has been missing from his home since the end of February, but they conld not definitely identify the body. The clothes anil slipper which were found some distance away from the body, covered with sand, were, however, identified by t^em as belonging to their brother. AUCKLAND, This Day. Frederick AVrigglesworth, aged sixty years, boarding at Ponsonby, shot himself twice with a revolver. Two shots were heard, and Wrigglesworth was found in bed with a smoking revolver in his hand and one bullet wound in hu left temple and another in the ■left breast. There is but little hope of his recovery. Immediately previous Wrigglesworth appeared in excellent spirits. John Saundcrs, wharf labouier, was struck on the back of the neck by a hag of sugar, which slipped from* :i ships slings, and had lua spin« fractured, causing paralysis. He was rpmoved to the hospital, and bia condition v lenoue.