CASUALTIES.

Evening Star, Issue 11891, 20 May 1903, Page 6

CASUALTIES.

John AtweH, an old age pensioner, attempted to commit suicide at Ida Vallev yesterday by opening an artery in his left arm. He also attempted to open one in his right arm. The wound inflicted was a deep one. Atwell, who was attended to by a doctor, is now out of danger. John Hislop, aged about forty-three, residing in Leith street, when engaged in handling cargo on the steamer Zealardia yesterday, tapped on the deck and fell headlong down the hold. He landed on his head, and when picked up was in a semiconscious condition. He was removed to the hospital.' It is feared that his spine is injured. While engaged stripping the roof off a building at Ngahauranga (Wellington), a carpenter named John Merrian,. aged twenty-seven years, stepped on a loose sheet of iron and fell to the floor below. He died a few hours later. Thomas Hennelly, aged fifty years, was found dead in a whare at Ngahauranga yesterday. He had been a sufferer from dropsy and kidney trouble. An inquest touching the death of Catherine Milner, aged sixty-eight years, who was found dead in bed, was held yesterday in Christchurch. The evidence was to the effect that deceased was a lonely woman, and followed the occupation of nurse. She was last seen over a fortnight aso at her house at St. Albans. A married son on Monday night forced an entrance into her hou?e, and found her dead in bed. The indications were that she had been dead for a considerable time. A verdict of "Death from heart disease" was returned. MARTON, May 20. WhTe feeding a chaffcutter near Marton yesterday, Alfred Harper had his left arm drawn under the knives. It was gradually cut off from the fingers to near the elbow. The sufferer was taken to the Wanganui Hospital