ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 19522, 1 April 1927, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

FISHERMAN MISSING. It is reported from the Wairau Bar (states a Blenheim message) that Roy Eyles, aged twenty-four years, a fisherman, married, was lost off a launch whilst trawling in Cloudy Bay yesterday afternoon. The man was alone at the time on tho launch, which was found following an erratic course, with the trawl still out. No further particulars are available. FATAL FALL ON STAIRS. Arthur C. Garrick, a returned soldier living alone, fell down a flight of stairs at Invercargill early yesterday morning, and was removed to the Southland Hospital suffering from a 'fractured skull. Ho succumbed to his injuries last evening. FOUND IN CREEK. James Johnston Colclough, aged sixty-nine years, was found drowned in a little creek not far from his place of residence at Belfast (Canterbury!. Colclough had left his house apparently in his usual health, and when ho did not return a search was made, and the body was found in 2ft of water. At tho inquest tho coroner (Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M.) found that death was due to drowning, but there was no evidence to show how Colclough got into the water. SUDDEN DEATH. A formal verdict that death was due to heart seizure was returned this morning at the adjourned inquest into the circumstances of the death of George Craig Glenn, single, aged fifty years, who dropped dead while undressing on the evening on March 19. Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M., sat as cox-oner, and Sergeant Dunlop watched procedings on behalf of tho police. Dr William Henry Borrio said that on the evening of March 19 he was called to the residence of, Andrew Samuel Glenn, 80 Russell street, where he saw the deceased. There were no marks of violence or signs of injury. Probably deceased had hurried home in the rain from the pictures, and had been seized with a sudden heart attack. The Coroner said that the evidence was clear, and a vei’dict would be returned that deceased died from heart seizure.