DEATHS & CASUALTIES

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8191, 5 August 1912, Page 1

DEATHS & CASUALTIES

WOMAN POISONED. TABLOIDS MISTAKEN FOR LOLLIES. Tabloids taken by mistake for lollies caused tho death of Mary Bresnan, a single woman of about forty years or arjOj at the hospital yesterday evening soon after 5 o’clock. She was taken to tho hospital about f> p.ni. _ou Saturday by a neighbour and on being admitted told the nurses that she had swallowed poison by mistake. She said that she bad come across a bottle of tabloids in a cupboard and, thinking they wore lollies, swallowed several of them. The label on the bottle, which is now in the possession of tho police was: “Colchicine, Salcylato.” £here ivoro no marks of violence on tho body. Miss JJresnan kept a boardinghouse at 28 Murnhy street. She was of Irish nationality and had been in New Zealand for about seventeen years. An .noncst will bo bold at the hospital this afternoon at 3 o’clock. drowned at PORIRXJA. FOUND BY HIS FATHER. It was ronorted to tho police yesterday afternoon by tho Porirua Mental Hospital authorities that a man namced Joseph Windley, resident of Ponrua, forty years of age, had been found drowned in tho Porirua stream by his father, to whoso house the body had been removed. FOOT BADLY CUT. An Ohariu valley resident, Lambert Paris, was admited to the hospital on Saturday evening with a badly cut foot, tho result of an accident.

PRESS ASSOCIATION. SHOT WITH A PEA-RIFLE. GORE, August 3. _ A man of about twenty years, David Hunter, lately working at Palmerston North, was found on the Croydon road, near the Gore cemetery, yesterday afternoon, unconscious. A pea-nfle bullet was in his forehead. Ho was removed to the hospital. There is little hope of his recovery. He purchased the rifle yesterday, and was found half an hour later.

FATAL SHOW ~'IG ACCIDENT. AUCKLAND, August 3. Ernest Stewart, a tablet porter at the Raurimu station, while shunting last night, slipped between the trucks. One leg was cut off below the knee. The man was conveyed to the Taurharunui hospital, where ho died early this morning. Ho was aged thirty-two years. He leaves a wife and two children. BOY’S THIGH BROKEN. AUCKLAND, August 3. This morning a boy named Roderiquo fell from a cart on the Queen’s Wharf, with the result that ho had a thigh broken. He was attended to by Dr Henry, and afterwards removed to his homo in May street. TAUPIRI FIGHTING CASE. HAMILTON, August 4. At the inquest on the Taupiri fa tality further exhaustive evidence wa taken, the proceedings lasting till late The jury retired, and on returning brought in a verdict that Ngahiwi dieii as the result of a fight with Kenneth Moore. The latter was then charged that he did feloniously kill and slay Ngahiwi. _ Ho was remanded until Fri day. Bail was allowed, £IOO in his own recognisances and one surety o £IOO, which accused’s mother took up. WOMAN BADLY SCALDED. DUNEDIN, August 4. Mrs John Cousins, of Blue Spur, when taking a kettle of boiling water off the fire, was either seized with a fit or fainted, with the result that the contents of the kettle spilled over the lower part of her body and extremi ties. She was removed to the hospital, Nut it is doubtful if she will survive. A FATAL SEIZURE. DANNEVIRKE, August 4. Robert Bertram Vernon Smith, aged twenty-six years, son of Mr Roben Vernon Smith, land agent, wks in High street on Saturday night with lady friends, when he suddenly fell. He was taken to a doctor, expiring shortly after arrival. The medical evidence showed that death was due to a bloodvessel breaking in the brain, YOUTH’S NARROW ESCAPE. DANNEVIRKE, August 4. A youth named Claudo Wysocki was working a folding machine in the " News ’* office on Saturday, and while putting a belt into action his apron became entangled m the coupling ihaft. Ho was caught up and whirled round several times, missing the roof •nd the partition wall by the fraction of an inch. His cries attracted attention; the engine was stopped and the lad taken down, exhausted and brnisetl, but not seriously injured.