ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1712, 31 December 1919, Page 3

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

A returned soldier named Arthur Tallin, who was charged at the Dnneoih Polite (joiu't last Saturday with dninUeime.ss and was remanded for a week lor medical treatment, died last evening in tin 1 hospital. At Uie inquest medic-id evidence was given that the cause of death was pneumonia complicated by endocarditis and terxminai meiieiigitis. A verdict in accordance with the medical testimony was returned. FATALITY ON MAPOURIKA. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Dec. 30. .1. Campbell, an able seaman on the Mapourika, was killed by a falling derrick this afternoon, when the steamer was nearing Picton. A SHOCKING TRAGEDY. •AUCKLAND, Doe. 30. Shocking circumstances surrounding the death of Mrs Catherine R Beniamin were disclosed at the inquest this morning. Dr Ritchie d« posed that he was called at 5.30 on Sunday morning, and found the deceased huddled up outside on. the street, the only clothing remaining on her body lining a piece of burnt singlet The body was extensively burned, and Mrs Benjamin was then unconscious. On entering the house lie found her husband asleep in bed,, and apparently no one in the residence had witnessed the fatality. A yard or‘two from where the doctor found ids patient was a coat and slippers. Medical testimony from the hospital to which deceased was immediately, removed, show ec! that though she regained consciousness; she was .“uttering intense pain, and eventually succumbed during the evening. _ The husband of deceased slated that his wife was accustomed to gel up during the night and make tea and such like drinks _al her gas ring. She retired to bed with him at about 1C.30 p.m., and was clothed in a flannelette nightdress. The toroner returned a verdict in accordance with the medical testimony, and added that, there was no evidence to show how the nightdress became ignited.