ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18763, 17 January 1923, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

(Per United Press Association.) WANGANUI. January 16. W. 11. Nowland, a married man, employed as a ganger on the railway, Was killed this morning through being overtaken by an engine at n bend whilo on a jigger inspecting the Westmere-Arairioho lipe. WELLINGTON. January 16.> At an inquest on John Cruickshank, aged 67 years, labour agent, who was found hanging in a lavatory at the rear of his office, it was stated that deceased was in

financial difficulties. Though the amount owing wa« not a large one, it worried him considerably. In the police evidence it v.'as stated that when the deceased was cut down life was extinct. A verdict was returned to the effect that deceased committed suicide while temporarily insane.

At the inquest of Ng Shu Ming, 41 years of age. a Ohiro.se woman, who met her death bv jumping out of the window of her residence in Taranaki street, passsrs-by said that (hey saw a woman at a window raise herself, place her knees on the window sill, jumping outwards, striking the footpath. Her husband said that there had been no quarrel. Deceased was always happy and contented. In recording a formal verdict of death from a fractured skull, the coroner said that there was'no discernible reason for the woman's act. -

INVERCARGILL. January 16. Stanley Davis, an electrician employed by Messrs Turnbull and Jones, "while engaged in wiring on the roof of a dwelling at. R.yal Bush, fell to (he ground, sustaining fatal injuries. His parents reside at North-East Valley. The dead body of an elderly man named David Brown was discovered on the foreshore of Bluff Harbour at 7.40 a.m. to-day. Deceased had been on a visit to Bluff, and was last seen alive on Monday afternoon. The body hears no indication of violence, and it is surmised that deceased fell into.the harbour.