ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16602, 14 July 1914, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

EXPLOSION ON CHINESE GUNBOAT. THIRTY-FIVE CADETS KILLED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. SHANGHAI, July 12An explosion on the Chinese gunboat Tungcbio, underneath tho sleeping quarters, killed thirty-five cadets. Tho cause is a mystery. A MARRIED WODIAN’S DEATH. SUICIDE BY SHOOTING, An inquest was hold at Templeton yesterday, before Dlr H. W. Bishop, District Coroner, on the body of Emma Hanson, a married woman, who died the previous day. Hugh Manson, roadman, in the employ of the Paparoa Comity Council, husband of deceased, said that since October, 1912, deceased had been subject to nervous attacks. They had lost a daughter, and since then deceased had been very depressed, and frequently said she would be bettor dead. On Sunday at 1 p.m. she had dinner with tho family, and seemed the same as usual. Then she went into the front part of the house. Just afterwards witness heard a report, and running into the room found'deceased lying on the floor. She was dead, and had a revolver wound in her temple. Dr Neil Guthrie gave evidence that lie attended deceased in September, 1912, for childbirth and in October, 1912, for nervous disease. She had lost a daughter to whom she was devoted, and was not in a position to take a very sound view of matters. Tho Coroner returned a verdict that deceased committed suicide by shooting herself with a revolver. SUDDEN DEATH. [Per Press Association.] DUNEDIN, July 13. Dlrs Robert Dlitchell, aged thirtythree, died suddenly at Waitati Flat this morning. RAILWAY WORKER’S DEATH. [Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, July 13. At an inquest concerning the death of John Dugdnle, killed during shunting work early on _ Saturday morning at Thorndon station-yard, a verdict of accidental death was returned, no blame being attachable to anyone. , A BAKER’S END. [Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, July 13. William Taylor, a baker by trade, who resided at Tasman Street, was found dead this morning. Ho rose from bed at 3 am., informing his wife that he was going to work, and at 7 o’clock Mrs Taylor discovered liis dead body lying on tho floor of the washhouse. There was a gaspipe close to the covpse, and tho gas was turned on. A doctor was summoned, but his services were of no use. The deceased, who was 66 years of ago, complained yesterday that he was not feeling well.

W. B. Fuller, of the Merivale team, who received severe concussion in the first spell of the match on the oval at Lancaster Park on Saturday, and collapsed on reaching the dressing room, has now practically recovered.