ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 19856, 3 May 1928, Page 11

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

CHINAMAN SUFFOCATED BY GAS. Wing Loon, a. Chinese laundryman, was found dead in bed in his place residence, . Manchester street, Christchurch, the cause of death being cut poisoning, the gas having conic from the laundry iron. At the inquest Mr Mosley, S.M., said death was duo to suffocation by gas, but there was "o evidence to show if death was accidental or otherwise.—Press Association. FATAL GUN MISHAP. At the inquest on Alfred Conway Gray, aged twenty-seven, single, who was found dead at Papnkura with a bullet wound in his head, a, verdict of accidental death was returned. It was stated to be obvious that the deceased was reaching up to lift a gun from a shelf when it prematurely exploded.— Auckland message. FARMER KILLED. While clipping a horse yesterday John Addington Wells, farmer, of View Hill, Oxford, suffered fatal injuries by having his head crushed against the side of a stall. The horse reared ;.;;d came down, trapping. Wells and crushing his bead badly. Wells got out of the stall and remarked that his head was sore, but went about his ordinarv work. Later in the day he became :11 and died.—Press Association.