CASUALTIES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 132, 21 May 1912, Page 6

CASUALTIES

AN INFANT’S DEATH

Wellington. May 20.

, Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M.. held an I inquest to-day touching the death of ! a three-weeks-old male child oi Mrs. Kingan. ; The mother said she lived apart from her husband, who was a jockey. The child was illegitimate. She had been feeding it on condensed milk. The night before it died she had given it a little arrowroot and water.

Dr. Fvne. who made a post mortem examination, said that death was due to either gastro-enteritis from improper feeding, or starvation.

The verdict was that death was ; caused by gastro-enteritis, due to im- ! proper feeding. ! HEART FAILURE. , At the inquest on the body of Arthur Sidney Awdry. who wa:found dead in a bath on Saturday night, the medical evidence showed that death was due to heart failure, j accentuated by entering a warm I bath. A verdict was returned ac- [ eordingly. i JOCKEY’S MISHAP. I Auckland, May 20. A jockey named Joseph Hoss, while schooling a racehorse over a hurdle this morning, received a fall which rendered him unconscious. He i was conveyed to the Auckland HosI pital suffering from severe injuries to ; the head. i BOTH LEGS BROKEN. : Leslie Hamblin, employed by John (Burns and Co., v. as stacking iron | sheets at the firm’s store in Custom I street when the stack fell, breaking I both his legs. MISSING SEAMAN. Auckland, May 20. The "New Zealand Herald’s Kawhia correspondent states that a seaman named Mays, belonging to the scow Ngaru, took the ship’s boat on Sunday to go fishing at the heads. The boat was seen outside the heads in the afternoon, but nothing has bet ii seen or heard of it since. Some wreckage was found on the beach towards Ao'ea to-day, and it is feared that the boat must have eapsizid n. the breakers. Scaich parties are i out.

ENGINEER BLOWS HIS BRAIL.' OCT.

To Knit i. Islay 20.

William Henry Adams, comity tn ginter. blew his brains out to-day. The suicide is supposed to be the re suit of depression consequent on de ceased being behind with his work. The co tm-ii bolds a meeting to night, and sr-veral contracts which should Lave b. en passed by deceased bf. i’ mA been done. Adams was seen at his i/lic? r.t two o'clock. He must have gone straight to Green and Colebrook’s store where he purchased a gun and cartridges, proceeding then to Green and C olebrook’s back yard where he committed the deed. The deceased was an old resident anil vvas widely esteemed. He was formerly employed in the Government Reads Department in laying off distiici. roads, and had been engineer to the Waitomo County since its inception. He leaves a widow and family of three children. THE LYSOL HABIT. Cambridge, May 20. Robert Coley, a prominent Waikato farmer, living at Pukerimu, was found unconscious on his farm today with an empty bottle of lysol near him. He died within an hour oi the discovery. Deceased was in. comfortable circumstances, but Lao. been suffering lately from nervous breakdown. He was about 50 years of age. He leaves a widow and chi ei young children. A GIRL’S SUICIDE. Wanganui. May 20. Emma Gilligan, the seventeenyear- old daughter of Francis Gilli gan, a well-known farmer of Waitotara, drowned herself on Saturday afternoon. In the morning she seem ed moody and went to her bedroom where she read letters and then burned them. Following this sm walked to the other side of the lake, and in answer to her stepmother r. call said she was going to drown herself. In spite of protests she walked into the water and disappeared, Lb being extinct when the body was re covered. At an inquest a verdict ot suicide while temporarily insane was returned.

SAD DROWNING ACCIDENT

Auckland, ’May 20.

The “New Zealand Herald’s’ Parenga correspondent reports a sac drowning accident. Five, native: were out in a boat fishing, when r big breaker capsized the craft. Three of the natives were only poor swim mers, and in spite of the efforts o companions to save them, one, a lat ; named John Cash, was drowned it ! the sight of his friends. The other: 'got ashore with great difficulty. WAGGONER KILLED. i Dunedin, May 20. i Joseph Ellis, waggoner, 35 years o i age, single, died at the Lawrence ; Hospital this morning as the resul : of injuries received through fali.n; i under his waggon at Miller s I" lat o: : Saturday. ' A WIFE’S DEATH. i Greymouth, May 21. j Margaret Cassidy, a young marriev Iv.oman residing near Paroa wa: ' found last night dead, she apparent- ; lv having fallen info the fire-place lon Sunday night in a iamt ii’g-fit. f Hei husband has been away since I February. Two children, cue of six. , and the other two years of age, were i foui’M in bed.