CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Volume 25, Issue 2321, 25 August 1898, Page 25

CASUALTIES.

0 i The body of an elderly man was found on ° the Cheltenham Beach, Auckland, on tha '' 17th. It is that of a man about 60 years oi l i age, of medium height, and military appearL _ ance, clothed in dark serge, with " W.G. " c and a surname illegible on the collar. There j is nothing on the body to lead to its idnnti- } fication. The body was only in the water •- an hour or two. The case is supposed f-i >. be one of suicide. Apparently the man s had seen better days. Fully a hundred per 6 sons have seen the body, but it has not yet j been identified. j With reference to the drowning of an 3 , elderly man near New Plymouth on whose s body was found papers with the name W. c Cruiokshank, Sfcrathmore, Mr Ferguson, ■, labour bureau agent at Auckland, gave a i- passage on the 15th July to W. Ciuiek1 shank, a carpenter, who had been working 1 on the exhibition building but was out cf B work, and who said he could get work at ' New Plymouth. He came from Wangaimi. was married and had four children. A( 9 the inquest a verdict of " Found drowned was returned. j Charles Golding, aged 55, employed at a brick kiln in Canterbury, died suddenly oi the 17th. At the inquest touching the death of 2 Robert Flick, found dead in his hut at Wait hola, a verdict was returned that death wn;3 due to senile decay. At the inquest at Auckland on John W. - Lee, schoolmaster, drowned recently at i Hukerenui, the evidence showed that Lee, . in company with James Rouse, went ti look for their horses. Lee caught his horse and got on the animal barebacked. The h .Tse got out of its deplh and plunged, -v itli the . result that Lee was drowned. He had been warned by Rouse of the danger of getting - on the horse barebacked. A verdici of f accidentally drowned was returned. 1 The body, of an elderly man was found in 3 shallow water in the Huatoki River, iv i ,i3 naki, on the 16th, close to the centre -if <lio * town. The papers on tha body born 'jk> name of W. Cruickfhank, Sfrathmore, !>ul the savings bank notices bore the Au. Lland mark. The man was a stranger, and if '<• unknown how he got into the river. Thomas Hobbs, 79 years old, was found ? dead in bed at his residence on the Adelaide ' road, Wellington, on the 16th . 3 Mrs J. E. Jenkins, while engaged in her ] housework at Petone, dropped dead. 3 The death of a child aged two years and 3 six months, named Henry Wadsworth, the - son of Mr John Wadsworth, of North- East 3 Valley, has been reported to the police. p It appears that on the>l4t'» inst. the 5 child fell off the kitchen sofa, and at the j! time appeared not to have "hurt himself. t The next day the mother noticed the chiic. was suffering from a stiff neck, and on the c 16th he became worse. Early on the 1 7th ' inst. the child was taken seriously ill and E Dr Macpherson was summoned, but before i he arrived the child died. At the inquest, 3 Dr Macpherson sa**. he was called to^ see I the child very early on Wednesday morning. t He found the child dead. Could find no in- , .juries to acoount for death, and examined J it again on Thursday. Taken in conjunction } with the evidence given, the fact that there was a raw surface between the little loe and the next one of the left foot, led witness to think the child died from tetanus. It was [ a germ disease, and it was a well-known fact that the germ was to be found in the ground, ' and especially in manure, and there was no . doubt but that the germ found its way into the system through the broken skin between "" the toes. The symptoms were exactly what 1 would occur in a case of tetanus, and did not j indicate stryclmitte poisoning. Catherine Wadsworth and her husband also gave eyi1 dence, after which a verdict "that the child died from tetanus " was returned. ' A boy named Hargreavcs, whose parents p live at Caversham, sustained a compound . fracture of the right leg above the ankle ir 5 the Glen road quarry, Mornington, on Sunt day. Along wth some other boys, oi j his own size he was playing in the quarry ' when a crane seems to have fallen over on him with the result stated. The little sufferer was picked up by a passing vehicle j and convej'ed home. ; Two more sudden deaths have occurred, i making seven in Christchurch since last i Saturday. A labourer named George Knaggs, 1 while having tea in the Foresters' Hotel one ! evening, fell dead ; and John Stevenson, \ 70 years of age, was found dead in his bed ' on * Friday. The last-named was said to have considerable property, and is believed to have a wife living in Dunedin. Another sudden death at Christchurch on Saturday — that of James Nicholson, about 57 years of age. It is not known whether he had any relatives in the colony. I A Chinaman named Yin Chong was found ' dead, in liis hut at Adam's Plat on Saturday. Death is supposed to be due to natural .causes.

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