ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.

Gisborne Times, Volume LIX, Issue 9575, 28 July 1923, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.

MERCHANT SUICIDES. TIMARU, July 27. Frank Carlton, aged 46. a coal merchant, was found ciead on the Timaru bowling green with his throat cut. He was a victim of the influenza epidemic, and had been worried o\ei coal mine ventures. Later. The. evidence at an inquest into the death of Carlton, managing director of the Timaru Ferndnle Coal Company, showed that tlie deceased was found in tlie telephone room ol the Timaru Bowling Club of. which he was a member, with Ins jugular vein severed and a razor in bis right hand. Carlton bad been seriously ill with influenza after ten weeks’ sojourn on the West Coast where be was connected with, the coal company’s operations. Mr. Mosley. Coroner, returned a verdict of death from a wound in tlie throat, sehinflicted while deceased was in a state of great mental depression, the result of illness and business worries.P.A.

SHUNTING MISHAP. HAMILTON. July 27. While shunting, Kenneth Morrison. aged 36 years, fell off a. truck. He was run over by the engine, both lea's being fractured and almost severed. Fie was taken to the hospital and is in a serious condition. RETURNED SOLDIER DROPS DEAD. CHRISTCHURCH. July 27. Edwin Thomas Wise, a returned soldier iarmei. aged 29, dropped dead i:e the Ellesmere district. He served with the Canterbury battalion in the war, and while at the front suffered concussion, receiving treatment at Brcckenhurst Hospital. He had enjoyed gairly good health since lie returned to New Zealand, but lately bad been bothered with a recurrence of ear trouble.