THE DEATH-ROLL.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVII, Issue 2410, 16 January 1895, Page 2

THE DEATH-ROLL.

A SAD STORY OP DRINK. An enquiry into the circumstances connected with the death of Mary Reynolds, wife of Mr John Reynolds, licensee of the White Horse Hotel, Ngahauranga, was held yesterday before Mr Ashcroft, coroner, and a jury of which Mr George Grey was foreman. The husband of the deceased stated that . deceased was 38 years of age and they had been married It! years. On Sunday afternoon she went upstairs and lay down on the bed, and after a while she began singing and seemed to be off her head. About 10 pm. she wanted to go through'the window-and through the walls and to get away from something. Ho persuaded her to get into bed, and while he was dozing off she jumped right across him out of bed and struck her arm. He put her back into bed. He thoughtshe had had too much to drink, and would be all right in the looming. She had been a good many. times the worse for drink. She sat up in bod and said “ They’re coming, the police are coming.’’ Between 3.30 and 4 a.m. on Monday be woke up and found - her dead. Sbe Had been drinking very hard for font years, and he had often seen her off her head before this. ...

Dr Lamb, who had made a post-mortem examination of the" body, .. said ho considered death was caused by heart failure, due to the congested state of the brain and lungs, which he should probably say was due to alcoholic poisoning. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the' medical evidence. STRUCK BY A BOULDER, A fatal accident happened to a man named John Welch, yesterday afternoon. He was working on the side of the road near Makara when a large boulder fell, on him, causing a compound fracture of the left leg and internal injuries. He was taken to the Dospital ly Mr McGrath, and his injuries were promptly, attended to, but Welch sank rapidly, - and died about-3, o'clock this morning. Deceased was about 45 years of age. DISTRESSING DEATH OP A YOUNG GIRL. By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent. ; Steatfobd, January 15: A f sad drowning fatality occurred at Ngairo yesterday. A young girl of 19 years of ago, Mabel Messer, a resident of Normanby, who was on a visit to Mrs Green, at Ngairo,. went to bathe at 3.30 p.m. in a dam Oft deep in the river. Mrs Green sat watching her, and the girl dived, but never rose to the surface. A search for the body was without success till the water was lot out of the dam at 8.30, when the body was recovered. iThe poor girl had been suffocated in the mud at the bottom of the dam. At an inquest held this evening, before Mr Malone, coroner, a verdict was returned of accidental drowning. SUDDEN DEATH AT MARTON. By Telegraph. —Press Association. Mauton, January 15. To-day, about 5.30 p.m,, Harry Price, a waiter, who had been absent on sick leave, and who had returned from "VVanganui "at 3 o’clock, died in the back yard of the White Hart Hotel f rom an affection of the lungs. Deceased wqs about 35 years of ago. He leaves relations in tile South Island. Inspector Pender received a telegram j from Blenheim yesterday stating that a man named George Calloway fell dead the previous day while haymaking at Canvastown, seven miles from Havelock. Calloway had no friends in the Colony. An inquest was held at the Hospital morgue yesterday by Colonel McDonnell, acting coroner, on the body of- Alfred Smith, a patient at the Asylum. The jury, of whom Richard Jas. McKenzie was foreman, returned a- verdict in accordance with the medical evidence, viz.,; that death had resulted from'general paralysis of the insane. ■

4. settler at ‘Waimea West, Charles Henry Ford, Q 8 years of ago, fell and expired suddenly on the 7th inst.