ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 6745, 17 February 1909, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

FEESB ABBOCIATION. DUNEDIN. February 16. A man named George Sullivan died at the hospital from concussion of tho brain this morning. The concussion wan the result of a fall from a swing. AUCKLAND. February 16. A man named Henry Llewellyn Griot fell down in a fit. while walking along 1 Welk'slcy street yesterday, uud expired, while being conveyed to the hospital. Deceased was of middle-age, and is believed to have been a school-teacher out; of employment. WESTPOET, February 16. At the inquest concerning tho death of Peter Sangwell, it was found tlint deceased mot his death by drowning in tlu Buller river. There was nothing to show how he came to fall into tho river. Deceased, who worked as a coal-triininei at tho wharves, was 22 years of age. CHEISTCHUECII, February 16. A young married woman named Ruby Margaret Johansen, residing in Bristol street, St. Albans, died suddenly this morning. Mrs Johancen was twenty years of age, and had only been married four months. She had been in indifier« ent health for a few days, and had complained of a pain in her back. At the inquest a verdict was returned that death was due to rupture of tho aorta; of the heart.