ACCIDENTS ADD DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 20311, 21 October 1929, Page 9

ACCIDENTS ADD DEATHS

FOUND UNCONSCIOUS. A single man named James Georg© Treves was found in an unconscious state in a small creek near Wanganui on Sunday morning. Ho was extricated by a passer-by and medical aid was summoned, but he died while en route to hospital. The deceased, who was thirty-eight years of age, was employed as a Wanganui county labourer* KNOCKED FROM CYCLE. At an inquest held at Lower Hutfc concerning the death of John Charles Perry, aged seventeen, who was knocked off his bicycle by a motor lorry, the coroner (Mr J. S. Barton, S.M.) returned a verdict that the deceased died from injuries received in a collision between a bicycle and a motor* lorry driven by George Henry Hunt. Asked by counsel if he had anything to say regarding tho responsibility of Hunt, Mr Barton said tho evidence, iu his opinion, negatived any suggestion of negligence on Hunt’s part. MENTALLY DEPRESSED. “I am now quite satisfied as to tha cause of death, and a verdict wi bo returned in accordance with the ,u----dence. that the deceased took hi vu life while in a condition of acute ntal depression,” said the coronr Ip W. H. Woodward, S.M.) at th . 11elusion of the inquest at invercai on Saturday upon Robert Hazlett ed fifty. The deceased, a farmer a. ffyross Bush, was found dead on October 15 in his hunk in a hut at Makarewa, on a farm leased by him.