ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19528, 10 July 1925, Page 11

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

TRAFFIC INSPECTOR KILLED. (Per United Pbesb Association.) TB KUITI, July 9. Mr J. Bremner, traffic Inspector at Ohabune, was killed by a special goods tram from Hamilton one and three-quarter miles south of Otorohanga, about 4.30 this afternoon. Mr Bremner -was proceeding on a jigger towards Otorohanga and met the train In a cutting round a corner. The driver, Malone, applied the emergency brakes, and stopped promptly, but too late to avoid a collision. Mr Bremner sustained-: fearful injuries, death being instantaneous; He was a married man with three children, the youngest of whom is six weeks old. BODT FOUND IN HARBOUR. (Per United Psbesb Association.) AUCKLAND, July 9. The body of Norman Brazier, aged 44, was found in the harbour to-day. The deceased was employed as a labourer by the Mount Albert Borough Council. DEATH UNDER AN ANAESTHETIC. (Peb United Fsbksb Association.) GISBORNE, July 9. An inquest was held concerning the death of Pearl Kemp Hyde, married, 37 years of age, a cook at the hospital. Death occurred while an anaesthetic was being' administered. Dr Bowie”, acting medical superintendent, said that deceased collapsed before she was properly under the anaesthetic. A recognised anaesthetic was used, the same mixture being used on eight patients the day of her death.. A post-mortem showed a seriour disease, which caused internal haemorrhage for which the patient was about to be examined. In witness’s opinion death was dne to a complaint which could not be detected, but which resulted in her collapse in the early stages of the anaesthesia. After further evidence, a verdict was returned in accordance with medical evidence. « The Coroner (Mr Levvey) added that all proper steps and precautions had been taken. BRIDEGROOM’S'PASH ACT. (From Cob Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON, July 9. Married at 11 o’clock on Monday morning, at the office of the Registrar in Hamilton, a young man named Albert James aged 22, attempted to end his life in a boarding-house at Frankton this morning by slashing his throat with a razor. Griffiths, who is a labourer, is stated to hail from Belfast, neat Christchurch, although, so far as can be ascertain, he has no people in this country. Latterly he has been working on the railway at Ongarue, and at Wanganui. He came to Hamilton on Friday last, and was met by the parents of the girl whom yesterdy he, made his wife, and who, by the way, is only 16 years of age. They stayed at a Frankton boardinghouse. The marriage ceremony passed off all right, although the bridegroom wore a worried look, and appeared to be somewhat depressed. This feeling seemed to remain with him all day. Shortly after 7 o’clock an Tuesday morning his girl wife_ went into her parents’ room. On returning to her own room a little later she found the door locked. She knocked, and called her husband by name several times. After a while he unlocked the door, and she was horrified to see blood streaming from a wound in his throat. She rushed back, informed her parents of her discovery, and eventually the police were called to the scene. The youthful bridegroom was sent to -the Waikcto Hospital. His wound is not serious, and Griffiths’s stay in the institution should not bo of long duration.