ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 109, 10 May 1910, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

m [BY TELEGRAPH—;^RESS ASSOCIATION.] . WAIROA, This Day. The police received information to the effect that some clothing had been found at Mr. Robexts's premises in' Locke-street and had been identified as belonging to Saied Habib, aged 24, a Syrian hawker. Search was made, and a constable recovered the body of Habib in a well at the back of the premises. A verdict was returned of foundi drowned. CHRISTCHURCH, 9th May. Thomas Pringle, the railway enginedriver, who was injured at Hornby on Thursday through his head coming 1 in contact with an overbridge, died at the hospital this morning. DUNEDIN, 9th May. An inquest was held this afternoon into the death of Henry Arnold Johnson, a seafaring man. From the evidence it appeared' that Johnson was discovered on Sunday morning lying on his bed in the Occidental Private Hotel. The proprietor thought that he had been 'drinking, and, as he seemed dazed and stupid, permitted him to remain there tall midday. As he then seemed to be- on the verge of delirium tremens, the police were asked to remove him, which they did at 1 p.m. The police treated it as an ordinary case of drunkenness, and Johnson" was kept in a cell under observation. At 3 o'clock his condition was • alarming, and a doctor was called in. He ordered the man's removal to the hospital, as he was then in a state of deep unconsciousness. The symptoms shown at the hospital were consistent • with a suggestion that he had taken an overdose of chlorodyne, and he was treated accordingly, but he died late on Sunday night. The boardinghouse-keeper, in the course of evidence, said that, after deceased had been removed, he searched his room for liquor, but instead found four bottles which had contained chlorodyne. There was no evidence to show that deceased had been drinking recently, and the coroner found that death was due to an overdose of chlorodyne, self-adminis-tered, the evidence not showing whether this was accidental or otherwise. He considered that no blame was attachable to the police. AUCKLAND, This Day. A child two years of age, Stephen Deckett, whose parents reside in Corn-wall-road, Mount Roskill, fell into a ibath of boiling water, and was so severely scalded that death took place after his removal to the hospital.