ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 15833, 18 June 1915, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Jhe- inquest on the body of William Warren Thomson, aged four months, tho child ot Mr J. A.. Thomson, of Wood--Ilaugh, who cl reel suddenly, was resumed yesterday afternoon. Dr ’Filcheit said lie had made a post mortem examination of Die 'body, and had found inflammation of the pericardium, and the lungs of sufficient gravity to cause death. Some of the bronchial glands wore tuberculous, A verdict was returned in accordance with (ho medical evidence.. As the result of an explosion in the Otira tunnel Patrick Twomey (lahorc'-l was kilted. Charles Storey badly injured, ami Samuel Armorica slightly injured. At the time of the accident the three men were engage.! in charging a hole prior to blasting away rock. -r young Maori workman named John Aorangi. employed by the Whakaniarama Land and Timber Company, met with a painful death on Wednesday week (says the taurangu comwpandent of the ‘ New Zealand Herald'). Together with two white employees. \V. J. Blister and E. Oriusoy. AoraiifAi was engaged in. taking empty trucks ir-oni the campaay's -\vharf :it Omakaroa. when both the gear of the engine and the brake on the trucks i-e----tuscrl load. Engine and trucks ran back ;U- considerable speed,_ and in rounding a snarry curve the engine capsized. The Manri’s_ two companions jumped off, but Aorangi was caught under the engine, and before he could be extricated had keen severely scalded. He died about three htnirs afterwards. Bristol-, in leaping from the engine, had his hip dislocated, and was conveyed to the Tanranmv Host l Jl j‘d- ' . . ' The adjourned inquest touching (he death of John Robert Hawkins, who was found dead in his, bedroom last Saturday mgdit, with a bullet wound in his head ano a rifle lying aeioss his laxly, was concluded at Port- 'Chalmers by Mr Widdow.son to-day. l-.vidence was given hv Dr Bonie. who had treated deceased after tile hitler returned from Trent-bum, where he had sustained injmie.s to the lower part oi hia back by falling oil a- gun caniage. His one idea was to gn hack to Trentnam. and the doctor, knowing ho was unfit, put him off - from week to week. Eventually witness referied him to the Defence Department, whore he. was told that anyone suit hack v r * Jj’ My to bo accepted again. He fretted over it. aiffi although wii cess had realised his patient would no! take it, easily, did not expert that any extreme act would he resorted to. (To was depiossed. Had lie been normal he w.wld have realised that he could not go back in (be state of health he was in. Jane Hawkins, mother of flic deceased, also gave evidence. «tatmg that deceased fret-tedj but was nor depressed, though he used to sit "nth In* h".-ti on h j - hands thinking. The coroner's verdict was to the c(i\vt- that ocaih was caused by self-inflicted injuries to the head, the deceased being in » depressed state of mind at the time.