ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10684, 6 February 1911, Page 1

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(Pe£ Paras Association.) _: • .-•-.-, •; Auckland', February- 6. Ethel May-Jackson, wife- of Robert A. was found dead-on Saturday,- at "her residence, Parnell. She left.-the following 'letter: "My husband- ; basrdriven!me .to do this. Perhaps he -will be; quite.satisfied with his work. : He has been going out. every night: 'I" think'he forgets I titfa. so very, lonely.; Jasked him to-night to come home. He-would not come, sp'lj think it's better to' die.";\©eceasedY married Robert A- Jackson in Australia": 18 months.:-ago.\ Three/days after the.; mai-riage: they quarrelled and : had failed to agree ".fever since." Jackson^'left;'"His. home and did not. return home ! ,tijl informed-.of -liis - wife's vdeath. Air.i'nqiDfest was.held.. .'•-■.•The revidenee showed 1 ""that"death wascaused'-by corrosive poisoning, and a verdict of suicide was returned': '■

John ; J. Russell, proprietor of the Star .Hatel, Qtakehu,, was found dead .morning- His "death is- attributed" to heart -failure. '.V ; :A" man named Robert. Hayman,. aged 23 and single, was: taken to the hospital tliis"moi"uing suffering from the effects r 6f-vpbison. About 3 a.m. it was discovered that lie had taken some poisonous '-liquid ; from a bottle marked "Poison." Serious results are not antifclpafed.', Havman lived at Dalmore, :No'rth-East Valley. :'»;Tlie.danger of venturing too far out' while surf-bathing,was exemplified in a striking, manner at the. Ocean Beach yesterday afternoon. . -Walter Tyson, about ;35 years of. age, was apparently :engaged ■., in .'"shooting the breakers'' iviien-'JiewaS overcome" by the strong backw-ash.-The lifd. line was some little distance away, an£- when it was procured dt was found--to be tangled, involving loss;, of time. Fortunately, a young man-named Crbfton Umbers was ..close-by, and he rushed into tlie water and The latter was unconscious when brought ;ishore, and rc-niained-so"' for:-a- considerable time, but he is iiow_ progressing fav.orably.