ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20484, 11 August 1928, Page 13

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

SUICIDE BY POISONING. / i (Pee* United Press Association.) ;• / HAMILTON, August 10. 4t thi inquest on Samuel Ernest Kemp, aged 58 a share milker, the jury returned a verdct that death was due to poison during mental depression. / CLERGYMAN INJURED. (PJta United Press Association.) I TAUMARUNUI. August 10. Tie Rev. Hemi Kiro Pou, while riding a uotor cycle along the Matapuna road yeiterday afternoon, collided with a motor lorry driven by Mr H. Smith. Mr Pou received injuries to bis head, and was tdnveyed to the hospital. He is progresing satisfactorily. / CHILD'S SUDDEN COLLAPSE. I, ■ * (Per United Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, August 10. While at school on Thursday morning Edna Hartle, aged six, a pupil at the South Schooi, was seized with an epileptic fit, and collapsed. She was removed .to her home, where she died some hours later. It is understood that an inquest will not be necessary. It is stated that tlie child had previously been receiving medical treatment at Balclutha, where she showed symptoms of epileptic trouble. YORK PLACE TRAGEDY. INQUEST ON VICTIMS. The inquest on the victims of the tragic fire in York place on July 9, which resulted in Horace Mann, aged 02, being burned to death and the death two days later of his sister, Ellen Mann, aged 70, from shock following burns, was concluded before Mr H. W. Bundle. S.M., yesterday afternoon..' 1 Sergeant Wade represented the police, and Mr A. E. Gascoigne appeared for the relatives of the deceased. , As the sister of the deceased. Miss Mary Jane Mann, who was the only other person ill the house when the fire broke out, Was not in a fit state of health to attend, Constable Meiklejohn produced a statement which she had made to him. She stated that she had been in bed ill on the previous day, and at some time during the night she lit a candle, which was standing on a small table near her bed. While she was obtaining some medicine she noticed that the curtains had caught fire. Apparently she had placed the candle too near them. She called her brother, who was sleeping in a room upstairs, and he came down and carried her out of the house. He then went back into the house, and she did not see him again. The coroner stated that the circumstances were extremely distressing. The only evidence to show whether Mann came out of the house or not was that of his sister, who was an old lady, and her memory of the facts might be vague. The verdict would be that the deceased Horace Mann was accidentally burned to death, and that Miss Ellen Mann died from shock and burns accidentally received. Miss Mary Mann has recovered sufficiently to leave the Hospital. CHILD STRANGLED. An accident of a particularly distressing nature occurred at Glenham (Southland), when Johan Sheila M'Douald, the one-year-old daughter of Charles and Elizabeth M'Donald, was accidentally strangled as the result of falling out of her pram. Shortly after 4 o’clock the child was left in the pram for a few moments while the mother was outside. Upon returning Mrs M’Donald discovered the child lying half out of the pram with her dress caught tightly round her neck, causing strangulation, which resulted in the child’s death.