ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 20715, 11 February 1931, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

DIED FROM INJURIES. Word has been received by the Invercargill police from the manager of the Milford Hostel, that a man named R. A. Begg, who was seriously injured when descending Cascade Peak on Sunday, died there yesterday. PIG HUNTING FATALITY. Thomas Joseph Smith, aged twentyfour, of Spreydon, Christchurch, was fatally shot on Sunday during a pighunting expedition on Flax Hill Station, twenty-five miles from Kaikoura. He was sitting in front of his companions when a rifle was being reSUICIDE DUE TO ILL-HEALTH. An inquest was held at the Morgue this inorniug before Mr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M. (sitting as coroner), on the body of Caroline Plew, an elderlywoman, who was found hanging in the washhouse attached to the residence of Miss Fish, 270 High street, yesterday morning. ' . , t . Evidence of identification was given by William J. H. Uren, labourer, a brother-in-law, who said the deceased was a single woman, fifty-three years of age. She had been employed by Misa Fish for nine years. Recently she had complained -about her health. ‘She underwent an operation, and had since been depressed at times. . _ Edith-May Neale, employed by Miss Irish as companion, said she saw the deceased at 9.30 yesterday morning, when she was working in the house. Deceased seemed brighter than she rad been for some days. Later .n the morning witness w r ent to, find deceased, but could, not see her. Finding the washhouse door locked on the inside, witness became Harmed, and smio for the police. Deceased had not been in good health, and was low-spirited at Wells gave evidence as to the finding of the body. . The coroner returned a verdict ot suicide by hanging while the deceiased was in a depressed state of mind, due to ill-health. WOMAN’S SUDDEN DEATH. Mrs Jean Hood, sixty-three years ol age, living with her • husband at 6Q G-raingo street, Dunedin, died sudden! at her home this morning, the cause of death being believed to he heart failure-.: The deceased was in the Dunedin Hospital about a year ago for heart trouble-: An inquest was held at the house this afierHOOU-