ACCIDENTS & DEATHS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10752, 24 November 1928, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & DEATHS

BUTCHER'S DEATH FROM POISON.:

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.Pr«m Association.' AUCKLAND, Nov. Xi. At the inquest concerning the death of William L. Moylan, aged u*l, butcher, who died in Auckland , x liosp.tnl last night from the effects of poisoning, Leor Moylan, son of the deceased, said he saw his father at the hospital the day after, he was admitted. His - father told him .ho had taken poison, which he thought at the time was a patent medicine he was in the habit of taking for his nerves'. He told witness he had been off work for a couple of days with a had leg. During- that, time he had ha dno sleep, and had suffered agony with his wound, which no doubt mnde him depressed. Tho poison which he had taken was used for dressing his wound. The inquest was adjourned .

MARRIED WOMAN’S DEATH ■4' ROM! ACUTE'SEPTICAEMIA.

COrnta Asßonlatlon-* AUCKLAND, Nov. 23. Dressed in a nightdress, singlet and stockings, the body of Mrs Elizabeth - May Bradney was found on the'floor of tho passage by her 11-year-old daughter on the evening of November 11. ’ -■Giving evidence at. the conclusion of the inquest this morning the girl ■said she found her mother when she came in from playing, and sho at once ran to a neighbor. ' Sorgt, Flannigan said there was no letter found which would, indicate a -message was left for anybody.

-’..Detective Kelly .said there were no nlarks which .showed violence. The husband had gone to his >york at two o’clock that afternoon.

'That Mrs Bradney died from acute septicaemia following a condition probably brought about by her own act, was the verdict of tho Coroner, Mr Hunt. LINESMAN ELECTROCUTED.

HOUR. HOBBS’ RESUSCITATION WORK FAILS. ; tpress , AsßOOiatioP-' OAM A KG, Nov. 23. .-Stanley Wilson, a linesman, employed by the Waitaki Electric Power Board, was engaged, in altering ’low tension wires at Otiakc at four o’clock this afternoon when apparently. he lost his tooting and fell across two low tension wires. His companions cut the wires and brought him down arid applied first aid methods. Medical aid was summoned, but efforts at resuscitation for lour hours failed, and death ensued from shock. Deceased leaves a young wife and a child.

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