ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20088, 3 May 1927, Page 10

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

DEATH FROM GUNSHOT WOUND. (Peb United Press Association.) WHANGAREI, May 2. At 3.30 o’clock on Friday morning last Mi's Holmes, housekeeper for George Watkins, a farmer, at Kaiwaka, heard a muffled report, but took no notice of it. At 6 o’clock, as Watkins made no response to her knock on his bedroom door, she investigated, and found that he had shot himself with a double-barrelled gun. At the inquest on the following day a verdict was returned that death was due to a gunshot wound, self-inflicted while the deceased was mentally depressed. DALMATIAN FOUND HANGING. (Special to Daily Times.) AUCKLAND. May 2. Ante Sumunivich, aged 46 years, a Dalmatian, was found dead- hanging from a tree at Pine Island to-day. The deceased’s wife lived in Dalmatia, and his two sons reside in New Zealand. DEATH DUE TO ASPHYXIA. (Special to Daily Times.) CHRISTCHURCH, May 2. The inquest on Timothy Hartnett, aged 66, who died suddenly in a house on the corner of Lincoln road and Spencer street, was concluded to-day. The evidence given on Friday showed that the deceased returned home on Thursday night slightly under the influence of liquor and took a fit, from which he never recovered- A post mortem examination was held, and the coroner returned a verdict that death was due to asphyxia, caused by a foreign body obstructing the air passage. A TRAINER INJURED. Mr P. Gallagher was admitted to Clyde Hospital on Saturday, suffering from a fractured collarbone, received through a horse falling on him whilst he was riding on the Vincent racecourse. FRACTURED LEG. When returning to his ship, the cargo steamer Kamo, at Oamaru on Saturday night, Captain J. Maclean fell and fractured one of his legs. He was conveyed to his cabin, and on the Kamo’s arrival at Dunedin on Sunday evening was removed to the Hospital for treatment. YOUNG MAN ELECTROCUTED. Mr G. Rivers, J.P.. sitting as coroner at Alexandra on Saturday afternoon, hold an inquest concerning the death of John Lyons, who wa s electrocuted on Friday morning whilst erecting a polo at the transformer station at Earnscleugh. A verdict of accidental death was returned, and although no rider was added by tlio coroner, the police pointed out the danger of an inexperienced man working in the transformer enclosure.