VIOLENT DEATHS

Evening Post, Volume 55, Issue 55, 3 September 1923, Page 5

VIOLENT DEATHS

LENGTHY WEEK-END LIST.

(IT TEUORAPB ASSOCIATIOS. 1)

■: ■;' AUCKLAND, 2nd September. 'Two tramway accidents on Friday rereulted fatalfy. Pet* Coyle, married, 64, a resident of Onehunga, died on Satur-. Jd ay morning of injuries received through Jailing from a moving car. Herbert •Mayall, single, 34,.died this morning. He was knocked down in' Karangahape road. '..'•-- .-,..'

; A railway-ticket inspector named John Henry Davis, 53 years of age, whose .wife left him ten days'ago, was found dead, by his son yesterday in a room full of gas. Deceased had been dead for 36 hours. A verdict was returned that deceased 'committed suicide; by gas poisoning. -while in ..a state, of depression due to domestic trouble. Davis was well known on the Main Trunk line, as '."Ginger" or "Hoppy," being lame as the.result of an accident suffered years ago. .•-.'■■. ■-,■"■ > ■ ' ■ •■ '.

; WANGANUI; Ist September. When Edgar Garner, aged 12|, son of Charles Garner, a;signalman at Aranioho.! rail way station, was cycling dpiibletbajiked with another; boy" on SaturBay night, he'collided with a taxi. Gar-nei-'s, skull; was, fractured, and he. died ion reaching the hospital.

; ■ ';•'••-._ DUNEDIN,'2nd September. ; Oliver, Christopher Creighton committed suicide■ last■night or this .morning by hangihgrhimself in a shed at his reieidence at Shiel Hill. Deceased,- who had be^n under the influence of liquor, was a returned soldier.--sgeci- 4^ 'v«rs. At an inquest, held, to-day, before Mr.: Bartholomew, S.M., a verdict "was returned that'death was due to suicide by hanging. „ i

; . An inquest on the body of an unknown man. found yesterday morning at Macandrew's Bay, Otago • harbour, was adjonrned sine-die. ' i., .-

■'.■A- man amed Daniel M'Niven was found dead in a bath at the public hos, prfal this morning with his throat cut and a razor alongside his body/His age was between 44 and 46 years.-