ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20743, 14 June 1929, Page 10

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

FOUND DEAD IN BEDROOM. (Per United Press Association.) HAMILTON, June 13. John Sinclair, aged 41, proprietor of a boarding house at Huntly, was found shot in his bedroom yesterday. The deceased was married, with three children. He was a returned soldier, and suffered from the effects of being gassed. His wife heard a noise, and hurried to the bedrooni, where she found the deceased lying on the floor with a shotgun near his body.' At the inquest a verdict was returned that the deceased died from a gunshot wound self-inflicted while in a state of mental depression, probably aggravated by the result of war injuries. ACCIDENTALLY DROWNED. RESCUE EFFORTS COMMENDED. (Per United Press Association.) NAPIER, June 13.' At the inquest on Francis O’Donnell, who was drowned while inspecting flood damage at Meanee on May 19 last, a verdict was returned of accidental death. The coroner congratulated Messrs Burgess and Muir, especially the latter, on their efforts to rescue deceased. x COAL MINER KILLED. (Per United Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, June 13. John Howd, an employee of the Linton Coal Company, lost his life in the Linton mine this morning as the result of a prop being knocked out and the coal it was supporting falling and crushing his skull against a truck. DEATH IN HOSPITAL. (Per United Press Association.) ' INVERCARGILL, June 13. David Richardson, aged 63, of Dunedin, a married man with a family, and employed as a camp cook at Golden Terrace dredge, Lower Shotover, who was found with his throat cut on June 10, died in the Frankton Hospital last evening. 1