ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20319, 30 January 1928, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

MAN’S LIMB FOUND. (Feh United Peess Association.) OPOTIKI, January 28. An inquest on the finding of a limb with a boot attached ou the. Ohope Beach on January 18 was held at the courthouse before Mr F. J. Short, J.P. (actingcoroner) and a jury of four. , E. Cooke, a teacher, said that he had seen E. Jackson on August 19 under the influence of liquor. He was in a car, which had got bogged at the roadside. Witness could do no " -nd left, telling Jackson to have a sleep. 1 H. E. the boot as one of a pair that Jackson had bought in Septemoer, .a.i he had repaired on January 11, 1927. The verdict was that Ernest Jackson met his death by drowning on or about August 19. CAR CRASHES INTO BRIDGE. (Peb United Peess asso:iation., GISBORNE, January 28. While returning from a dance at Kaiteratahi in the early hours of the inorning two youths, named Montague Clarkson and John Graham, suffered serious injuries as a resu.c ... .lie.. c-i c.asaiug into a small bridge. The top rail of the bridge passed through the windscreen and caught Graham on the chest. Clarkson is suffering from concussion. The condition of both men is causing concern. A young woman, who was accompanying them, escaped with a scratch on the shoulder. The car was badly damaged. DEATH FROM INJURIES. (Pee United Peess Association.) ROTORUA, January 29. Haupapa, a Urewera Native, died today as a result of the injuries which ha received in a motor accident at Te Whaiti on Friday. MISHAP TO MOTORISTS. Pee United Peess Associ —ion.) GISBORNE, January 28. Through the brakes failing to hold a car load of boxing enthusiasts returning from Tokomaru Bay late at night, the vehicle was precipitated down a steep hill. The occupants were badly shaken, and the driver, Robert Fraser, a wellknown settler of Arero, suffered a fractured collarbone and internal injuries. DEATH FROM POISONING. (Per United Press Association, i HAMILTON, January 28. A poisoning fatality when Arthur Richard Lovell, ageu 46, married, with one child, who had been carrying on business as a grocer at Pukemiro Junction, succumbed on admission to Waikato Hospital. It is understood that he had been suffering from ill-health, and had been complaining of pains in the head. WOMAN FOUND DEAD. (Special ro Daily iiiies.; CHRISTCHURCH, January 28. The body of Sarah Emma Francis, aged 47, was found in a pool of blood on the floor of a room in her house in Cranford street, late yesterday afternoon. She had committed suicide by cutting her throat with a razor, which she still had in her grasp when found. An inquest was held last evening by Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M. The evidence disclosed that the deceased, who resided with * her husband and family, had been suffering from ill-health for some time. She had recently returned from a holiday, and she appeared to have improved considerably. Looking through a window on his return home in the afternoon one of her sons saw her lying in a pool of blood. The Coroner returned a verdict that the deceased had committed suicide while suffering from extreme mental depression brought about by a nervous breakdown.