ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20271, 2 December 1927, Page 10

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

ROAD WORKER'S DEATH. (Per United Press Association.) PALMERSTON N.. December 1. Alfred Thornton, aged 23, employed by road contractors at the Massey Agricultural College, who was found to be missing yesterday afternoon, was discovered this morning hanging over the bank of the Manawatu River with a strap round his neck, tied to a fence. Apparently it is a case of suicide. KNOCKED DOWN BY BUS. (Pee United Press Associat; jn.) PALMERSTON N., December 1. During the early hours of Thursday morning a bus leaving Bunnythorpe after a dance knocked down an elderly man named Brosnan. A doctor was sent for, but at the time Brosnan appeared little the worse as a result of the accident, Later in the morning lie evidently collapsed, being found unconscious near the Glaxo factory, where he was employed. A doctor was again summoned and pronounced him to be suffering from concussion and internal injuries. Brosnan was removed to hospital, his condition this evening being very serious.

DEATH BY STRANGULATION. (Per United Press Association.) NAPIER, December 1. At the inquest to-day concerning the death of a Tittle girl, Dorothy Leyland Green, aged five years and a-half, the evidence desclosed that the deceased apparently was endeavouring to gain admittance to the house through a small window which was fastened at varying heights by a bolt slipping into a hole and was not weighted. Presumably, the child opened the window but failed to bolt it properly, and when she had her head through it fell and pinned her there. The marks of the toes of her shoes on the wall of the house indicated that the unfortunate •T-tle girl had made efforts to regain her footing on the block by which she had got up to the window, but when her mother arrived home the child was dead. A verdict was returned that death was caused by strangulation and shock. The Coroner remarked that it was one of the saddest cases he had had to deal with, and he added that the man Who made the windowmade a shocking job of it.

“FED UP WITH LIFE.”

(Per United Press Association.)

CHRISTCHURCH, December 1. A verdict of suicide was returned at the inquest held this afternoon into the death of Rowland Edward Cowper, who was found dead at his home on November 30. The body was found in a room in which the gas was turned on, and medical evidence/ was to the effect that death was due to coal gas poisoning. Cowper Had recently divorced nis wife on the grounds of desertion, and left a letter stating that he w-as ‘‘fed up with life."