ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7028, 17 January 1910, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

TWO SUDDEN DEATHS. J PRESS ASSOCIATION. CHRISTCHURCH, January 16. Elizabeth. Berdsford, forty years. of ago and. unmarried, died suddenly on Saturday night, and at the inquest today. a verdict' , was recorded of death from cerebral apoplexy. Annie Lynn, the eight-moniths-oW child of James Lynn, of Sydenham, died suddenly this morning. The cause of death is supposed to be whooping cough. DUNEDIN, January 15. Mary Ann Sinclair, 'thirteen years of age. who was apparently in the best of health, died suddenly , yesterday. At an inquest this morning the medical evj- . donee was that death,had been caused by embolism, tho result of the bursting of hydatids. A verdict was returned accordingly. ' ’ . On Saturday evening a foreigner, Christian Vecht, about sixty-seven years of age, fell down a steep and. narrow staircare of a boardinghouse in Maclaggan street at which he had been lodging, andvwas so severely injured,that he died before medical assistance could be obtained, WANGANUI, January 16.. ■ Mrs Matthews, a married woman, agea about twenty-one years, residing in Dub lin street, died while under chloroform in dental rooms on Saturday afternoon. A doctor was present. A man named Joseph Scott, a labourer, fifty-seven years of age, diving at 27, Hopper street, slipped on Saturday nigjit and’ fell down a flight of stairs, and injured his back and head. He suffered a, severe shock and was taken to the hospital. Catherine Eliza Murray, of 189, Adelaide road, died suddenly yesterday morning. ■ She had been in hex usual health up till an hour before, when she rose to prepare a cup of tea for her husband, Mr John Murray, grain merchant. Mr Murray found his wife lying dead in the kitchen shortly before 7 o'clock. As a medical certificate that death was due to heart disease was forthcoming, an inquest will not be necessary. Hanging from a rafter in the washhouse, the lifeless body of Esther Miriam Muller, of 16, B van street. Pet one, was

discovered at midday on' Saturday by her husband, Jacob Muller (employed at the Petone Woollen Mills); and a neighbour, Thomas Stanford. Life, had evidently been extinct for. some hours. An inquest concerning- the occurrence was held-at-Fetoone before Dr A.,,McArthur, .. S.M., yesterday. The evidence showed that the deceased,' who was a, native of ' Breslau, Germany, had been in'ill-health for the past six months, having during ■, that period undergone two operations at the Wellington. Hospital. Her husband left home as usual at 7 o'clock on Saturday morning, there appearing - then to be nothing especially amiss'..'. The washhouse window had been, screened with a ' black cloth. A verdict of suicide whilst in a state of unsound mind:-Was returned. Mr audi Mrs Muller had. (resided in J Petone for two years. They were married in Phildelpbia , thirteen,. years ago. n There are no children of the 'marriage.