ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12530, 16 April 1935, Page 7

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

DEATH BY GAS POISON DEPRESSED LAND AGENT (Press Association). WELLINGTON, April 15. An inquest concerning the death of Horace Graham Rutter, a land agent, of Wellington, was held today. A police constable gave evidence of being called to an unoccupied house in Mariri. road on April 7 and Folding the hody near the oven door. The rooms smelt strongly or gasEvidence was also given that Rutter had been managing salesman for 11. G. Rutter and Co. for the paist J.B months. The deceased had said that lie was financially worriedMr M. F. Luckic, who appeared for the relatives, said that ho was the deceased’s solicitor for many years. Sineo the the deceased had been worried financially. A verdict was returned by the coroner, Mr E. Gilbertson, that the deceased took hi-; life by inhaling coal gas when mentally depressed through financiu matters. . ' i PALL FROM GRAFTON BRIDGE YOUNG WOMAN’S END (Press Association!. AUCKLAND, April 15. Miss Josephine Wall. 22, fell from Grafton Bridge at about 8 o’clock last night, and was fatally injured. A young man /saw her fall, and police and ambulance men, using torches, found her in the gully, still 'oonsci/ous., tbiut badly injured. (She lingered for 15 hours. It was not until this morning that her identity was established. BOY BELIEVED DROWNED c Press Association). DANNEVIPKE\ April 15. A 12-year-old youth, Herbert Ed ward Watson, a son of Mr and Mrs S- Wa'tston, of Dannovirkq. Dsi believed to have been drowned on Saturday afternoon,. • -when attempting tioi ftm/d swollen r:H-or ait tine junction of the Manga toro-Waitaiiora road in a dray. A search failed to find any truce of the body. Who pays the bill for the injured. Consult the Standard Insurance Company for full protection.—S. G. Norlhc, local manager. (Advt.) ,