ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVIII, Issue 18333, 16 February 1920, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

FOUND STRANGLED. £Px&. Paras Association.*

AUCKLAND, February 14. The dead body of a middle-aged man was found in ParneH Park. He had been strangled with a necktie, which was tied tightly round_ Ihis throatThere were no means of identification, except the name " W. H. Brooks " engraved on his watch.

DEATH FROM POISON. [Peb Pbess Association.] DARGAVILLE, February 14.

James W. Adams, aged forty-five, n) blacksmith a*t Kaihu, committed suicide this morning by taking rough-on-rats. His wife and children were visiting in the south, except one child, whom ho told to go to a neighbour's, as he was 'going to take poison. The boy informed the neighbour, who, with other neighbours, did what they could. Dr Burton went out from Dargaville, but Adams died shortly afterwards. He leaves ai wife and nine children.

BOY DROWNED. [Pkb Pbess Association.]

FALMERSTON NORTH, Feb. 14. A boy named Kelly, son of Mr W. Kelly, of the Railway Department, was accidentally drowned in the river below the Esplanade.

TWO BODIES FOUND IN SAME LOCALITY. (Pta Pbess Association.)

PALMERSTON N., February 15

The body of the boy Allen Kelly, who was drowned in the Manawatu River on Saturday, was recovered to-day.

During th© searching operations the polica discovered the body of a middleaged man in the same spot as where the boy fell in. The man had probably been in the, water for three months or mdre, and tire body was in a very decomposed state. There was nothing to establish identification beyond tattoo marks. No one has been reported missing from her©, and it is assumed that the body was washed down from the upper reaches by floods. The police are malring inquiries*

HOSPITAL PATTENT CUTS HIS THROAT. [Pas Pbess Association.! DUNEDIN, February 14.

Thomas Mayow fatally cut his throat in a lavatory at the Dunedin Hospital early this morning. Little is known of him except that he appeared to be about sixty-three years of age, and came from Kelso. He was admitted to the hospital on February 9 to undergo an operation, but refused when it was to be performed.

DROWNED WHILE BATHING. (Pes Press Association.) DUNEDIN, February 15. A man named Lester Vernon Cliff, single, aged twenty-one years, residing at Caversham, was drowned while bathing at St Clair on Saturday. The body had not yet been'recovered.

SHOOTING FATALITY. (Pes Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, February 15. Jeau MacDonald, aged twenty* years, belonging to Clifton, was shooting rabbits on Saturday, when she accidentally shot herself in the abdomen. She was operated on in the Southland Hospital, but died this morning.

FOUND DROWNED.

The young woman, Hannah Elizabeth Jensen, who wandered away from her home, 58, Tennyson Street, last Wednesday morning, was found drowned in the Heathcote River near the Opawa bridge, on Saturday morning. The body was discovered by Mr J. Tullooh, of Opawa Road. An inquest was held at the Courthouse on Saturday before Sir S- E. M'Garthv, District Coroner. The Rev J. K. Archer said that deceased had 'been a member of his church at Sydenham. Her health had been very unsatisfactory of late. She had not been able to take much food, and had practically lived on apples for twelve months. She had been subject to fits of depression. Constable Bosworth, of Woolston, said the body of the deceased was found in the Heathcote River, about fifty yards above the Opawa Bridge. The body was fully clothed. Sergeant Cassidy said that he was informed on the morning of February 12 that the deceased was missing. Since then search had been made by the police and Boy Scouts. The Coroner returned a verdict that the deceased committed suicide by drowning whilst suffering from acute melancholia.

RETURNED SOLDIER'S DEATH. An inquest, touching the death of Charles Henry Rayfield, a returned soldier, who died under an ansosthetio at the Chalmers Military Hospital on Friday afternoon, Avhilst undergoing an operation, was held by Mr S. E. M'Cart by, District Coroner. After' hearing the evidence, which stated that the operation was a necessary one, and that the deceased had previously been operated upon when under an anesthetic, the Coroner returned a verdict that Rayfield died whilst under an anesthetic administered to enable the performance of a* necessary operation. Death was due to the atheromatous condition of the heart and aorta, and to the ansesthetic, which was skilfully administered, all necessary precautions having been taken.

GORED BY A BULL. While in the milking yard on Thurs-j day mormV. Mr F. Pearce, of Wilson's) Siding, was attacked by a bull and waa' rescued by one of his sons (writes the, Ohoka correspondent of the " Lytteltooj Time 3 "). Mr Pearce was gored in the! shoulder, the muscles being badly torn. I The latest advice was that he was making satisfactory progress, but was in a>] very weak condition.