ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.

Evening Star, Issue 14784, 27 January 1912, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.

At tho inquest, at Tnverrajgill on tho body of Mr Fdv/axd Rodders, who was found dcsid in his bod on Wodnoi-day, the medical evidence \v:is that death was due to suffocation, probably caused by the deoeased failing on tho )-K;d in a fit (to which ho was oiibjccl) and burying iu's face in a pillow. I'ichviird Kirby". a prisoner from Mount Fxlcn Gaol, died in tho Hospital under circumstances which it is considered warrant a ivironi.nl inquiry. He was w.rvin<; a k;\v.ii years' hend labor sentence. Ho had boon 'i;iearcorai<d sinrn 1908, and ifi Raid to have fmli'ercxl fmrn niinans' complaint.—Awkb.nd ww. Archie Moiklo, wharf laborer, aged 56, widinr: in 89:1 Cumberland e (.root, was riding horn-.' on hifi bicycle at limch time loday, and when in Castle, street oppo.-;il,.e (hi'. University got- hemmed in mviug approach of a" dray ;end a motor car. Tho latter difilodi-cd Meikle, who was removed to the Hospital. It was found that though ho was badly shaken and had .sustained a few bruises no l;o :)<*-• wore broken. Seeminclv he had a luckv escape. A* Wellington telegram fays : —.At the adjourned inquest tui' Madame Karle. or Gertrude Smith, who was ful.cn ill on election and wno died in a private hospital, the Government Analyst slated that the upio! in !h. j stomach could not have been more than one-fhirj of the amount contained in one of Stcarno's wafers. which it wa„s stated deceased had been «ak'ng. Poisons, however, nay have be-m administered in the blood. l)r Fylfe said that he did not think that apiloids were the cause of death. The coroner, in returning a verdict that death was due to hocmalysis of the blood, with acute, inflammation of ih_> kidneys, said that death had apparently been caused by the indiscriminate use of drugs.