ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 19351, 10 September 1926, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

FOUND SHOT. Samuel Prout, of inaha, was found dead yesterday in a shed near his house. The top of his head was blown i off. and a discharged shotgun was found alongside the body. Deceased, who was (iity-eight years of ago, was a married man, with four children. He had been in poor health for some time. CRUSHED TO DEATH. Arthur Augustus Geison, a single man, aged twenly-one years, a carpenter, employed at the Petono Railway Workshops, who resided at Lower Hntt, died at the Wellington Hospital last night from injuries received to his head and chest through being crushed between a railway wagon and tlio door of a suction gas plant, which was undergoing alterations at Petono. He died lOrrdn after admission to the hospital STUDENT’S DEATH. At tho inquest on George Rome Hollway, tho Canterbury College engineering student who collapsed and died while climbing Castle. Hill, Graigie Burn, with a college survey party, the medical evidence showed that deceased had been suffering from a derangement of the heart, and had an inward goitre. The coroner returned a verdict accord- | ingly.