ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3396, 11 December 1911, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

REPORTED DROWNING FATALITY

[per press ASSOCIATION.g WELLINGTON, Dec. 10. The police have received advice that a man named Dobson was drowned at Lyall Bay this afternoon. No particulars are to hand. CORONER'S BUSY DAY.

Dr. McArthur, coroner, held two inouertn on Saturday. In the case of the death of Alfred George Haines, who was found hanging in a slied at his residence at Khandallah, on Friday, medical evidence was to the effect that death was due to heart failure, not strangulation, and a verdict was returned accordingly. In the case of Archibald Buchanan, who was found with his threat cut in a private hotel on Tuesday, a verdict was returned of death, from septic pneumonia, due to wounds self inflicted, while temporarily insane. RAILWAY FATALITY. AUCKLAND, Dec. 10. A Native named Charlie George, of Mercer, employed by the Railway Department as one of a relaying gang, working in the neighborhood of Knwiiia. siding, was run over yesterday morning, and instantaneously killed t>y the Mercer-Huntly goods train. The driver of the train states that the morning was grey and foggy. As the train approached Tvimihia he saw something between the lines lying in a crouched and bundled-up position. He was unable to pull up in time. 'The body was terribly mutilated. Deceased’s bicycle was found by the line, and it is supposed he had a fall, rendering him unconscious. Ho was a married man. YOUNG MAN’S SUICIDE.

CHRISTCHURCH, Dec- 10. Charles Edwin Dobson, twenty-two years of age, residing at Woolst-on, committed suicide at his own home at about 2.40 'p.m. on Saturday. His parents saw him go to his room, and hearing a report, went to see what the .matter might bo. Deceased lay with a double barrelled gun close to him, and lit was clear that ho had shot (himself. He was then dead. He had been in illhealth for some time past. At the inquest a verdict of suicide whilst temporarily insane was returned.

SUFFOCATED BY SMOKE. WELLINGTON, Dec. 9. Thomas Jenkins, aged 45. lost his life early this morning through being suffocated by smoke during the destruction by fire of a four-roomed house in •Lower Hutt, where be lives alone. The lire brigade arrived promptly, but did not know there was anyone in the (house till they found the body in the bedroom. Jenkins had evidently tried jto make his escape, but was suffocated.

A LYSOL VICTIM. AUCKLAND, Dec. 9. A married woman Mrs Goodby, aged about 50, residing with her daughter, Mrs Mason, in Phillip street, Newton, drank lysol and died after removal, to the hospitaL CYCLIST’S FATAL COLLISION. HASTINGS, Dec. 9. Percy Todson, aged 11, collided with a motor car, whilst riding a bicycle, in .Market street this morning, and was killed instantaneously. The boy was riding a zig-zag course, and was struck kv the car on the left side of the body and severely crushed. The car was travelling at the rate of six miles an hour.