ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17289, 3 October 1916, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

FOUND DROWNED. Mr H. W. Bishop, District Coroner, held an inquest at tho City Morgue yesterday afternoon into the circumstances attending tho death of Samuel Charles Watford, whose body was found in the Waimakariri River on Sunday. Susan Caroline Walford stated that deceased was her husand. He was a slaughterman, and was forty-one years of age. He loft, his home, Si Jameses Park ltoad, Papanui, at 11.45 a.m. on Sunday. Ho took his bicycle with him. Witness did not know where ho was going. Ho had not been able to work for some time, as ho had been ailing, aud was unable to sleep at night. •Tamerlane V. Whitmore, a furnituro maker, gave evidence that 1 ho was going fishing on Sunday and was at the Waimakariri River, nt. tho end of St John’s Road, at 2.35 p.m. He saw a bundle in the middlo of tlio stream, and on investigating found it to be tho body, of a man. Tho body war lying face down in about thirteen inches of water. Ho informed tho police. After henring further evidence the Coroner returned a verdict of found drowned.

Inquiry at tho Hospital yesterday elicited the information that, the man J. Tarpey, who had a leg amputated on Friday as a result of an accident on the tramway at tho corner of Fitzgerald Avenue and Ferry Road on the previous evening, was progressing satisfactorily.