ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20906, 21 December 1929, Page 19

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

MENTAL PATIENT'S DEATH (Pm United Press. Association.) . . WELLINGTON, December 20. A male patient at the Porirua Mental Hospital was found hanging yesterday afternoon, i The. body was immediately. cut down, but the man was dead. FOUND DEAD IN BED. (Per United Press Association.) NAPIER, December 20.. A married woman named Dorothy Emily Doreen, a nurse by occupation, was found dead in her bed at her residence at Napier by her husband when be returned from work ' last evening. The deceased had been' attended‘by a doctor for a weak heart. DEATH UNDER ANAESTHETIC. ■(Pm Usited Press Association,J _ ’■ NAPIER, December 20.' At the inquest -held this morning on Sarah Jane Alderman, a widow, who died after having her teeth extracted under aii anaesthetic at ■ the Napier Hospital, ~a' verdict was returned thdt the deceased died from heart failure duo to the Shock, of the operation, combined with the effect of pyrroheea. - * MANS BODY FOUND. NO CLUE TO IDENTITY. , (Per United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, December 20. Three boys fishing from the rocks at Scarborough, near Sumner, to-day, found the. dead body -of a tnan floating in the water. The body bore a wound on the throat indicating that death was. due to eilicidc. •" The deceased was a young man Thabody was well dressed, but the. clothing gave no clue to the man's identity. BODY FOUND ON BEACH: : (Per - United Press Association. * . , . .WESTPORT, December 20. The body of’George. Baker, who'was drowned at Tiroroa on Saturday, December 14, when attempting to swim the Buller River, was found on the-beach at Fairdown by Mr Carr, a , gold prospector, at 4 p.m. to-day, and was removed to the morgue.- ‘An inquest for the purposes of identification will be held, to-morrow.