ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIII, Issue 10653, 14 May 1895, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

TPeb Press Association.! NAPLES, May 13. An elderly man named Joseph Dexter died suddenly at Petane. WELLINGTON, May 13. The man Patrick, the remaining victim of the Tory Place fire, died in tbs hospital this morning, , DUNEDIN, Mat IS. Alfroda.Beatrioe Healey, aged tea week*, died suddenly, either through feeing smothered while in a fit of whooping cough, or being over-lain by hetfinother. DEATH FEOM SCALDING. A fatal accident from scalding took place l at Belfast on Saturday evening. About half-past six o’clock a girl prepared a bath for Mr E. M’Saveney’a children. She put come hot water into the bath, and while she went out to get some cold water to put into it, one of the children, about two years old, fell in, and was tcalded eo badly that though Dr Bcittin was sent for, and did all he could for the little sufferer, it died before midnight. An inquest waa held at deceased’s parents’ house, Belfast, yesterday afternoon, before Mr E W. Bishop, coronbr, and a jury, of wbom.Mt G. Gray was chosen foreman. Dr Brittin deposed that the cause of death was syncope from' shook. The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death, by scalding” J. M’Anally, employed as a night watchman by the Union S taamahip-Company at Lyttelton, had a narrow eaeapeifrom drowning on Sunday night. He was walking; along the gangway between the steamer Oorinna and the wharf when he fell overboard. He was rescued from his perilous position by some of the company. An inquest was held on Thursday afternoon at Horton Farm, before Mr B. B. Willis, Coroner, and a jury of sir, of whom Mr P. O’Boy la; wp chosen foreman, touching the death, of Florence May Clark, aged six years,' who waa accidentally killed by the mill wheel on the farm the previous evening. Tha evidence showed that the childwaß’playing with another sister near the mill wheel, when she slipped from the wall in between the spokes of the wheel. Dr T. J. Withers also gave evidence, and the jaryroturned a verdict of accidental death.