CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2523, 23 July 1902, Page 48

CASUALTIES.

A young man named James Campbell had the misfortune to break his leg in the football match Port Molyneux against Romahapa, played at Hilly Park, Romahapa, on Saturday

Roger Bddo-jves, a young- man and a cripple, attempted to commit suicide at the Thames on the 15th. He was found in the water jft Shortiand wharf by a constable, and wae com eyed to the hospital, wbcre he received prompt attention. H© has been pronounced out of danger He had been despondent through illnes*. A labourer named Burman, aged 25. fell down the ho.d of the Ruupehu at Wellington and fractured his skull. He is now lying unconscwus in the hotpital. The manager of the New Brighton Tramway Company, Mr John Thomson, di^ap pearcd on Saturday night. His continued absr-nc* wa« causing his friends much anxiety Tho disappearance iva-s cleared up on the 15th inst.| when the body of the unfortunate man was found in the Avon near New Brighton. It appears that Thomson wa* seen on the 11 o'clock tram from town to New Brighton on Saturday night, and left tho tram at New Brighton At the inquest a verdict of "Found drou ned " was returned, there being no e\idence to show how he got into the river. Charles Abb fell suddenly dead on the 15th while chopping a pine tree at Swaneon. His wife witnessed the occurrence. Jt i<s stated that deceased was attended some four yean ago for a paralytio stroke An accident hapf-oned to the Masteyton F>asfc Coa-st mail coacli on the 15th inst Whilst descending a hill a whe*>l got into a hole. The driver was thrown off. and the horses bolted for a mile and a-half, when they plunged into the liver at the narrow point of the road. Onehorse was drowned. The coach was hadly smashed. The driver was much bruised iibout the log*. Burman, the wharf lurr.uver who feh down the hold of the Ruapehu on Monday, vied at the hospital at Wellington on tho 15th A man named Chancy, a milkman at St. Albans. Canterbury, committed ?iiic.de on the 15th by shooting lnm<=clf. At the irquei-' a verdict of " Suicide while temporarily insane" was returned. Mrs Cha^noy '-mi her husband's manner was not strange, though Dome two months ago he receded a !.nook on the head while working in .lie <=tal>le His head g^o him pain, but it did not =e?m to affect him seriou=;lj. He had not been drinking to cxce=s. He was in no financial difficulties, but =cemH troubled on Monday morning wl>cn he Trie'.\ed a late notice He remarked that he would never pay t'.p rates Other evidence showed that deceased had overnight sei.t for a neighbour to milk thecows in the morning, and the ncis'hlsoui on arming found C'h.iiuey"'. Lody. The yo) i o evidence was that deceased was a. uinpeiaU', inoffensive mail.

The body of a young man was found hanging- to a treo on tbe 16th three lijilr* n< rth of Kurow There was nothing to identify the young man, unless it lie a fcrap of pi\por in one of the pocket* -with the words ' X A Tindell " written on it.

An inquc-t v. ill b.- held at the Hc-pital on Wednesday to inquire into the death of a man named .Tames Williamson, who wa-. admitted to the institution on .Sum'.iy evening apparently differing from akohoium, and died on Tuesday night.

Richard Henry, employed on board the steamer Woolwich, had one of lil^ 1< ?s badly broken at Oamaru on Wednesday afternoon by one of tl c thwart beams falling — * ""oa. Th« Xortk Oteao Times *asA t^>x

tbo break was a bad one, as the foot wps almost turned round

Mr Hevsrv Plnll lT i*on, a^erl 55. proprietor of an Auckland Restaurant, was taken ill on Friday outside his restaurant, and died fehoitly aftei wards through the- bursting of a blood -Nes cl.

Airs li. D. Jick-on. a m ell-* nmvi resident, died suddenly at Nel-on on Friday morning. An old man i.arr.en J I'oi.ia-. bourkc chell was found dead in hi< house at Belfast. Neglect and old ago are supposed to be tho cai^e.

A married «<?aman named William M'Xai^hlou. wlnle hi-ukng in tho sj.ehur ci m c 'cow Da.ivy at Vuckl.ind on Saturday, knocked oi or . by the j'b and '".ro.vn'd. The body ha 5 not been rfcowicd. Drcea-ed only jun.ed the io.=?el m hour preno-i^ly. Hon Kukuta the principal thief of Tj')W>t Wiiikatc. was found killed on tho railway l.ne n<-a- Papskum. It i~ supposed that he iV.I off the rr^ip He served with the BiitiMi m the tr<ui>poit Lfrv^ct. during the Waikato war.

As the- cieaaier Mercedes wa- going down ihe Buikr, bound for Hongkong, \ia Wei liinrlon. the dead bedy of a Chin^p stok-T v.-as found in tbo coal huuknr. evidently smothered Up was not miVod till the steamer anchored m the roadstead, and wh°n tho captain camp- ashore to col'ect memr'PM of the crew ho >; as not at hand. The rn-an was a natho of Canton, named Wah Chin, and was shipped by the Me»--redes at Hongkong prioi to her voyage to AVestport. A young married won.au. the wife of J. 11. S. Smith«cn. butci -:r, Chri'-lciivrch. was foi.nd drowned in the P.ner Avon on Saturday. Sho had a baby three weeks old. At 5 o'clock that morning she got up, telling her husband .that she was going to get hot milk for th<> baby. As °he did not return t-> bed i-earch was made for her, and the body found in the river a quarter of a mile from the hont'o an hour ln'.or. Ai the inque=t a \ordict wn> return-d that d^ce^sod drowned hersolf while suffering from melancholia.

With ref^Tnce to the death of Ro'x>rt Adam Pindall. who committed su: .d^ by hanging himself at the racecourse ferry, above Kurow, the other day, the Oamaru Mail writes- A sad feature of the caps is that the day before the news was received by the family tno mother died, and there is thus a house -of double mourning A brother of the deceased young man qv.ire recently returned from uhe South African ■war. Nothing was elicited at the inqu;sfc to throw light on the cause of the act.

An acoident occurred at Stratford railway station at 5.50 pm. on Saturday. A porter named Eye, aged 19, while engaged shunting, was run over by a truck containing 10 tons of gravel. His left leg was horribly mangled, and was almost severed from his body at the thigh. Three doctors were promptly in attendance, and an operation wpr. performed, but tho boy died at 10.30. At the inquPtit on Monday the iury added a rider to their verdict to the •effect that lad porters should not be employed shunting. A man named Kdmon«en was brought in from tiio bush to Ktratfoid on Monday badly bruised by a failing tre«.

Fanny Cook, a middle-asjed woman of the unfortunate c-la<-«, was found by a constable lying in Victoria etreet, near the Public Library, Wellington. She wa,s in a state of collapse, and died while b^ing removed to the cells in a cab

Our Palmerston correspondent reports a sudden death there. James M'Adie, a veryold resident of Shag Vallc3 r . whri-o hf> formerly carried on business as a blacksmith and farmer, but had latolv retired, was in his usual health nn Sunday evening:, but about 11 o'clock was suddenly taken ill. Dr Hi?]op was at once in attendance, but, in spite of med:cal aid, the deceased died at 5 o'clock on 'Monday morning. Tho can" of death, it is stated, was a c^.ot of blood on the heprt. He leaves a widow and two tl'ildrcn — a son and a married daughter.