ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17250, 18 August 1916, Page 11

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

MAN’S BODY FOUND IN STYX. Tho badly-decomposed body of a middle-aged man was found in the Styx River above Belfast lest evening by a man named Williams. Tho body was removed to th© Belfast Hotel. An inquest will be held before Mr T. A. B. Bailor, S.M., at tbo Magistrate's Court at 3 p.m. on Wednesday.

AN INFANT’S DEATH. The three months old child of Mr F. SilcocV, head master of the Glentunnel School, mot its death on Wednesday aftorhoon under very tragic circumstances. Mrs Silcock was giving the child its food in an old-fashioned feeding bottle. She had occasion to leave the room for a few minutes and on returning found the child black in the face, having been suffocated by the teat of Hie bottle slipping down its throat. Dr Davenport, of C-oalgato, was summoned but could do nothing.

WATERSIDER’S DEATH. [Per Press Association'.] , WELLINGTON, August 17. Robert Carson, aged fifty-two, a waterside worker, died to-day as tho result of a razor wound, believed to bo. self-inflicted. He had recently been despondent.