INQUESTS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1056, 26 May 1892, Page 15

INQUESTS.

Mr H. W. Robinson, District Coroner, held an inquest at the Hospital on Monday morning on the body of the girl Julia Adshead, who died in that institution on Friday morning last. The evidence showed that on the 2nd inst. deceased was engaged in washing clothes at the copper in Dr Wilford’s kitchen at the' Lower Hutt when her clothes caught fire. She rushed into the breakfast room with her clothes blazing, and the flames were with Ufficulty put out by Mrs and Miss Wilford with blankets, rugs, &e. Dr Wilford and Dr Whitehead applied remedies, and in the afternoon she was well enough to be sent to the Hospital, having previously, without their knowledge, got up off the sofa ou which she was laid and walked upstairs without assistance. She, however, succumbed to her injune-, as abovementioned, on Frilay, and Dr Ewart staled that death was caused by exhaustion, consequent on the severity of the burns. It was also stated that there was no door to the copper fire-place, but a tray was used in lieu thereof, and the groom, Robert Boys, deposed that seeing her working without having placed the tray in front of the fire, he warned her of the danger she ran, and fixed it up for her. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death. (PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Dunedin, May 23. At the inquest touching the death of the son of Mr Scobie Mackenzie, M.H.R., the jury returned a verdict to the effect that, deceased accidentally broke his neck while swinging. At the inquest on the boy Thomas Fraser, killed by being thrown out of a cart on the Forbury road, the jury returned a verdict of accidental death, and added a rider that the road where the accident occurred should be protected by a substantial fence o.- a stonewall.