ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 19437, 21 December 1926, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

SUICIDE BY SHOOTING. Afc the inquest concerning the death of Charles Robert Hcwett, aged sixtythree, whose body was found in an old gumfield near Milford, Auckland, on December 2, evidence was given that deceased had been missing since Otcoher 2. He had £2OO m bank notes, and a portmanteau when ho left home, but neither was found. The body was fully clothed, and there was a shot gun beneath it. _ The' coroner returned a verdict of suicide by shooting.— Press Association. The inquest at-Christchurch into, the death of Mary Yardley Rosovear, aged forty-five, and married, was continued before Mr Lowry, S.M. She had been found lying on the floor of her kitchen with the gas tube in her mouth. A neighbor, Mrs Alice Williams, gave evidence that Mrs Rosevear had told her of domestic and financial worries, and was very depressed. She had hinted that she might take her own life. The inquest was adjourned until Wednesday. An inquest was held at Christchurch into the death of Violet Evelyn Mitchell, aged thirty-nine, married, who had suddenly collapsed while sitting in a chair at her home. Dr Pearson, who had made a post mortem examination, said death was duo to asphyxia and heart failure, fpllo.wcd by haemorrhage. The condition, ; ho said, was unusual, as hamiprrhnge generally took place in the brain, except in the case of violence. There was no sign of violence, and the bleeding must have been caused by weakness in a blood vessel. Death must have been almost instantaneous. A verdict W'as returned accordingly. RICOCHETTING BULLET. An extraordinary shooting accident occurred on K. D. Meyer’s farm at Nauru Hill, North Otago. Meyer, accompanied by David aged twenty-six, a musteror, weiit into a paddock to destroy a cow with a Marlin rifle. Moyer fired and the bullet entered the animal’s forehead and emerged at the ear. It ricochetted 20yds and lodged in Pollock’s back near the spine. The doctors are unable to locate the bullet. The injured man is in hospital, and his condition is satisfactory. CAR AND TRAM. James Morrison Wilkie, of Ashburton, a dentist, fractured a leg yesterday through the motor he was driving crashing head on at a fast speed into a tram waiting on the wrong side of Lincoln road, Christchurch. It was raining at the time.—Press Association. FATAL COLLISION WITH COW. A Gore Press Association message states Robert Chant, aged fifty, a married man, who was cycling to Waikaia last evening, collided with a cow grazing on the road. Chant was thrown heavily, and expired before a passerby could obtain assistance.