CASUALTIES.

Evening Star, Issue 11626, 10 July 1902, Page 6

CASUALTIES.

A Melbourne message states that a man named Anderson, employed by the Electric Light Company, Bendigo, was electrocuted. An arc light fared, and he was sent to rectify it. Subsequently his lifeless body was found lying across a bunch of wires. There were no signs of burns. It is believed that the cause of death was shock to the heart. At the inquest on George Main, journalist, Auckland, evidence was given as to the bad state of deceased’s health and depressed spirits. The jury, without retiring, brought in a verdict that deceased committed suicide while mentally deranged. James Pirie, seventy years of age, residing near Woodlands, met his death in a strange manner on June 30. He left home to visit some friends, and did not return, but as it was nothing out of the ordinary for him to stay for a few days no alarm was felt by the family. Yesterday morning he was found dead in a wire fence, in getting over which his feet had dipped, and he had fallen forward into a ditch on the other side, and this had caused the wires to twist. He had extricated one foot through the boot coming off, but evidentiv died from exposure and exhaustion.