RECENT ACCIDENTS

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12590, 29 October 1926, Page 7

RECENT ACCIDENTS

INQUESTS ON VICTIMS SUICIDE OF WOMAN. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, October 28. Fatal injuries were inflicted upon Wilder Barry Fox on Saturday by a Ricoarton hound tramear when box was attempting to catch a city bonnet car At tne inquest, conducted before Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M., to-day, the evidence was to the effect that Fox ran out of ths cricket ground gates with his hand held up to stop a city bound car. The motorman of the outward car which was approaching sounded his bell loudly and continuously, but Fox was apparently oblivious that a second car was approaching from the other direction. The motorman applied the brakes hut too late to avert the accident! If Fox had taken another step forward he would have been clear of both trams. The coroner found that no blame was attachable to the motorman. AUCKLAND, October 28. An inquest concerning the death of Mrs M. Armstrong, who was found drowned in . Manukau Harbour last Monday, was held to-day. Miss A. A. Hooper said she employ®* l the deceased as a lady help for tix weeks, and last saw her on Sunday afternoon when she was singing hymns She was in bad health and suffered from insomnia, while family troubles preyed on her mind. She bid Mid per husband was in England,.and ane wished she were dead. Deceased often talked with spirits, and sometimes appeared to be conversing with her dead daughter. When deceased left her lasi Sunday die understood she was going to visit a friend at Onehunga. The coroner returned a verdict suicide by drowning while in a depressed state of mind. . At the inquest concerning the death of Mrs Florence Alice Matyke, who was killed through being knocked down by a motor-’bus on September 7th, the coroner, Mr McKean, S.M., said it was the dutv of the driver, Lionel Arthur McAskoll. to have exercised more caution than he did, and the only conclusion the court could form was that the ’bus was negligently driven by MoAskell. . _ , A formal verdict was retauhed that the deceased died as the result of being knocked down by a ’bus.