ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 14531, 6 December 1910, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Archibald Myers, aged thirty-two, a married man, Jiving ;i t Dcvonporl, Auckkuid, died yesterday after taking a Seidlity, powder. After swallowing the jxiwder Myers said it was bitter. Symptoms of strychnine poisoning ensued. A doctor was called in, but the man died two hours later. A seven-year-old' daughter of Mr Arthur Stewart, of Hinds (Canterbury), was accidentally run over by an iron roller on which she was riding, and killed instantaneously. Ail inquest was held at Now Plymouth on a man named Wood, who was* i'ound dead in the- police* cells on Saturday morning. It was shown that deceased was ar rested on Friday night for drunkenness and then liad a email cut over one cje, probably as the result of a fall. The jiosl mortem revealed a quantity of blood under the skull. There, was a growth, on the left side of the brain, which was very rough, all round, and it was concluded that ifie blow above the eye had thrown the brain against the growth and lacerated nn artery, causing a compression of blood on the brain, resulting practically in apoplexy. A verdict was returned accordingly. The adjourned inquest into the, circumstances surrounding the death of Stephen Fredk. Parker, aged sixty, was resumed at D.irgavillo last evening. The inquiry lasted seven hours. Evidence w.-ls given that ih& deceased and his mate had been drinking, and were walking home, when three horsemen rode up. The deceased lurched in front of a horse ridden by Hairv Hockley, and was knocked down, sustaining injuries to his temple. Hockley and his friends dismounted and attended" the deceased till he w;is on his feet again. Deceased walked away, but later sat down by the road and went to sleep. Ho was found by tho licensee of the Kaihu Hotel on Sunday morning, and attended to till Monday morning, when he was taken to the hospital, death ensuing soon after his admission. Dr Young deposed that the man's life might have bv?n saved if he had been brought in sooner. The coroner returned a. vedict that death was duo to ininnVfi tho result of bein:; knocked down bv a horso ridden by Hockley. It is understood tho police- will fake further proceed-ings.-—Press Association. Mr Herman Nil/, sen., about sixty years of ago. went shooting Last night (says a Carterton message), and was found dead thi* morning on the hills of his property at Towbarau. There was no sign of any wound. It is presumed th:it he died from ho.rt failure.

Peter Grenfell. aged fiflepn, died in the Christ-church Hospital (his morning as th.» result of injuries sustained in a fitreet accident yesterday. Grenfell was riding a bicycle, when (savt< an Association wire) it- collided with a grocer's van, the, wheels of which passed over him. Ilia parent; reside in Addington. A very serious accident befell Captain Robert Scully, of Half Moon Bay, on Saturday (says t.li-s 'Southland Times'). He w.-iR blowing up slumps on his propeitv, and ono of the charges hung fire. Think incr it was a faihue, lip went over to see, when it suddenly exploded, and the ooucufifiion broke his thigh and did some damage to his head. Captain Scully, who ; s an need man, war. brought over lo Bluff in a. launch and taken to the Tpveroaiglll Hospital. He is progressing favorably.