ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 10 November 1926, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

SUICIDE. (by telegraph—press association.) HAMILTON. Nov. 9./ At the inquest held concerning the death .of Mrs Mary Devine, whose body was recovered from the Waikato Hive on Friday morning, the evidence re vealed that the night before she left ■home she had a quarrel with, her husband, and threatened to leave. Her husband’s remarks were evidently thought to be a sign of indifference. Deceased had also been obsessed with the idea that she was suffering from cancer. ' . The coroner, in returning a verdict that she committed suicide hv drowning herself, remarked that the c-ase was a sad one VAGRiANT COLLAPSES. AUCKLAND, Nor. 9. Tine death occurred in the Auckland Hospital to-day of Henry Denny, aged 52 years, who was found by the police sleeping out in the Domain early yesterday morning. Denny was arrested on a charge of vagrancy and taken bo the police .stating!, where lie was found to be in a state of collapse, the doctor ordering his removal, to the hospital. Death was due largely to exposure. DYING IN THE OPEN. MASTERTON. Nov. 9. At the inquest on the man who was found unconscious land dying in a. paddock on Awatoitoi station, medical evidence revealed that the deceased sintered from chronic tubercular affection of the lungs and brain membrane, and death was due to tubercular meningitis He was identified as Herbert Edward Ooghlia.n, aged 44. A. native of England, he had no friends in the Dominion. He was invalided home from Egypt in 1916. A verdict was returned in accordance with the medical evidence. FATAL MOTOR, SMASH. CHRISTCHURCH. Nov. 9. As the result of further information received, the police .state that the real name of the woman victim of the fatal motor smash on Yaldhurst Roiad was not Mrs. Reed, but- Mrs Elvelyn Blanch Hildlebrand. aged 37, of Darfield. 1 She had been living apart from her husband for about five years. DEAD IN BED. GISBORNE, Nov. 10. A man named Williams, wbo arrived at Gisborne on a nigbt car at three o’clock this morning, was found dying in a bed of a local hotel at nine o’clock. A doctor and the police were chllbd, but by the time they arrived life was extinct. Deceased was a painter' bv trade. His full name is not known.