ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18686, 16 October 1922, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(P£H United Press Association - .) AUCKLAND, October 14. At the inquest on the man who was found dead in the Domain on Friday evening, the body was identified as that of John Paton Miller, waterside worker, formerly a detective in the police force. There was a bruise on the body over the heart. A bottle containing a powerful disinfectant was alongside the body. The inquest was adjourned. Archibald M'Math, who was knocked down by a tram car a week ago, died in the hospital this morning. NAPIER, October 15. The old man, David Mole, who was found at his home a week ago with a deep gash in his throat, died in the Napier Hospital this morning. CHRISTCHURCH, October 14. William 11. Cain, aged 68, a stonemason, was found hanging at 7.45 this morning at the yards of his employer, Mr J. Tait, monumental mason, Cashel street. Deceased was separated from his wife. THE WOODHAUGH TRAGEDY. INQUEST ADJOURNED. Mr 11. W. Bundle, S.M., opened an inquiry at the Morgue on Saturday morning into the death of Ada Berney. a married woman whose body was recovered from tho Water of Leith above the Georgo street bridge en Friday night. Formal evidence of identification was given by the deceased's husband, Frederick Arthur Berney, caretaker of tho Trades Hall, who said she was about 38 years of ago. They had been separated for three years owing to her misconduct. Witness understood that she had been living recently with a wharf labourer. He know nothing of tho circumstances sur'l'ounding her death. The Coroner adjourned the inquest till Thursday to enable the police to make further inquiries. According to tho pclieo reports the deceased had been living sometimes at her old home in Forth street and sometimes at the houso of a man in Fillcul street. On Friday night she was met by a man about six o'clock at the Royal Albert Hotel. They then went out to the Woodhaugh Gardens, where ho left her, promising to return about 7.45, after he had been home to change his working clothes. When he went back he found her bag and hat on the brink of the Leith, near the Georgo street bridge, and when he failed to find her body he rang up the police. Sergeant Shajiahan and Constable Harris went along immediately, and by tho light of their torches scon found her body, which they had some difficulty in getting ashore in the darkness, as the bajik of the Leith here is about 20ft high. Tho deceased had evidently struck a. stone on the rocky ted of tho stream, for there was an ugly wound in her forehead, exposing the skull, and a smaller cut beneath the nose. She was clutching a bunch of broom in her hand. The body of Elizabeth Brenssell, who was reported missing from her home at Riverside, near o".iti:am, on Friday, was found on Saturday afternoon in theTaicri River, under a railway bridge about a mile from the house. The deceased, who was the wifo of William Charles Brenssell. carrier, was the mother of eight children, the oldest 11 years of age.