ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 July 1912, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

(by TELEGRAPH. —■ PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) FELL BACK DEAD. WELLINGTON, June 30. F. C. Marquand, a boarder, living at the Zealandia Priate Hotel, died suddenly this morning. He was apparently well when retiring on Saturday night, but efforts at rousing him by a. mate, named John Garrett, at 8.50 this morning were unsuccessful. Garrett waited in the bedroom till about 11 o’clock, when deceased sat up in bed, opened his eyes and then fell back dead. A postmortem examination will be made. WISHED TO BE DEAD. DANNEVIRKE, June 30. An inquest was held on Saturday on the body of Edmondson Green, a laborer of Kiritaki, 71 years of age, who cut his throat. A verdict, was returned ; ‘‘That the wound was self-inflicted while temporarily insane.” Deceased suffered with pains in his head and had expressed a wsh that he was dead. “MAN OVERBOARD.” AUCKLAND, This Day. Samuel Wadsworth, able seaman on the scow Era, was sweeping the deck as the vessel was entering port on Saturday night when the foroboon jibbed in a, sudden squall. A rope caught W ads worth and swept him into the sea, which was running high. A boat was lowered and a search made but there was not a trace of the man. MAORI MISSING. HAMILTON, This Day. Kaute, a well-known Maori, disappeared from his homo at Run at recently. It is believed that he fell in a stream which was flooded. Searchers revealed no trace of Kaute. who was one of the few survivors of the Drake, u defence.