ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24833, 5 February 1942, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

DEATH FROM POISONING - An inquest concerning the death of Eleanor Bancroft Falconer, a single woman, who died in the Dunedin Hospital on November 29, was held yesterday morning, Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M., sitting as coroner. .Sergeant O'Carroll represented the police. Detective Sergeant Le Sueur stated that he had visited the deceased's residence, and had found a cup containing traces of a liquid. Beside the cup he had found a "note, and he had discovered containing a certain poison, in the room. The coroner returned a verdict that the deceased died as the result of taking poison while in a state of mental depression.. ESCAPE (PA.) ASHBURTON; Feb. 4: : Mr James Delaney, aged 65, a married man, of Montalto, a labourer at Birches Camp, had a miraculous escape on'Monday. He was buried under a fall of shingle for three hours. Dozens of men with shovels, assisted by a bulldozer,worked feverishly to release him. Fortunately, the boxing of the trench he .'was working in saved him from being badly crushed, and he was not seriously injured.- He is now progress-. Ing satfsfactorily in Ashburton Hospital. MAN ELECTROCUTED <P.A.) "' • ASHBURTON, Feb. 4. Mr Frank Keen, a married man, aged 30, of-Tripp Settlement, employed by tjie Public Works Department at Surrey Hills, was- electrocuted yesterday afttoSttoon when the ■. gantry he was jerking caihe, in contact with electric wiresi carrying 6600 volts.