ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20832, 26 September 1929, Page 10

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

TRAGIC DEATH OF TWINS. INQUEST ADJOURNED. (Per. United Press Association.) . ■ AUCKLAND. September 251 ' The inquest into: the death of William Arran Cubis and Timothy Brian Cubis, the four-year-old, twins. who were 'found strangled at their home at Dominion road last month, was resumed before Mr Hunt, SAL, as coroner.' Df Alexander Gumming, who was called to the house soon“ 1 after the tragedy, said he had found J the children's bodies lying side by side on a bfed, both of them being fully dressed. The skin on the neck of each was ruptured, while a silk stocking lay alongside each. He applied artificial respiration to one but respiration was not attempted on the other who had been dead for about an ; hour. The cause of the death in each case was strangulation. The inquest was adjourned. FOUND DEAD IN DRAIN. (Peb United Press Association.) ' HAMILTON, September 25. , ;Edmund Stephenson Twidle. aged 75, was found dead" yesterday in a drain, where he , had been working. Death will probably be certified as due to heart failure. KNOCKED DOWN BY TAXI. ELDERLY MAN FATALLY INJURED. ““■ ■ ' * , (Per United Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, September 25! ’ John Emison Gilby, aged about 83, was knocked down by a' taxi this evening, and died'within a few minutes. The. taxi was ’driven by J. B. Fitzherbert. The night was sftnewhat misty, and the visibility poor. • t BODY FOUND IN HARBOUR. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON. September 25. The body of William JoJiD'Braid, & warpensioner,' aged about 01 years, who until recently resided_ at Whitehall, a private boarding house in the city, was found today floating in the harbour. The body had evidently been* in the water for about two weeks. FOUND HANGING. The body of Robert Findlay, 'C4 years of age,, was found hanging from the roof of a washhouse at his residence in "George street North yesterday morning. In the afternoon Mr J. R. Bartholomew, coroner, held an inquest into the circumstances attending the man’s death. A sister of the deceased said her brother was a single man. He was an engine driver, but had not been able to work for the past 10 years. Three weeks ago witness heard that be had tried to sever the arteries in his arm. He was sent to the Hospital, and later to the chronic institution. On Tuesday witness took him from the institution to their home. She saw him early on Wednesday morning, about- 2 o’clock,' and again at 4 o’clock, but when she went to his room at half-past 6 he was not there. A search was made, and the body was found in the washhouse, suspended from a beam by a clothes line. —Dr Borrie gave evidence .as to‘ treatment given to the deceased in. the Hoa- • pital. The man was a borderland mental case, and required watching.— The inquest was adjourned to a date to be fixed for the production of further evidence.