CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2808, 8 January 1908, Page 25

CASUALTIES.

At the inquest on the body of Thomas Morton, aged 72, who died suddenly whilst unloading a truck at Ohakune Station, the medical evidence was to the effect that death was due to rupture and aneurism of the aorta, and a verdict was returned accordingly. Miss Garvey, a visitor to Auckland, got off an electrio tramcar .while it was in motion and was dashed heavily on the roadway. She was injured on the head, and there -is bleeding internally. Though her condition is serious, there is hope of her recovery. While attending -,'a dance at Mount SomeTS on New Year's Eve, William Brown Hoed, 49 years of age, died suddenly. The Inspector of Police has received information that Hunter Barclay, a retired butcher, . living at Omimi, died suddenly on Wednesday, aged 68. The inquest *was opened at Wellington on Henry , Ernest - Davis, a printer, who died suddenly on the Jtst inst. The evidence showed ,that'"deceaised had complained of not feeline wel} after- tasting two small glasses of steer and lemonade. The inquest was "adjourned" to "enable th© contents of the -stomach .to. be analysed. . Charles -Paterson, a -'Dunedin young man, fell from his bicycle on the 31st ult. whilst hastening to catch 7a train. at Wajhola, and sustained- concussion of the brain, d'vjng at Waihola on! the morning of the" Ist mstAdvice was received by the police on Deoember 30 to the effect that William Allan Brown, 19. -years of age, was drowned on Sunday in the Wangaloa Creek, near Kaitangata. The body has been recovered. A 'man named John Hocking, resident at Addington, was riding his bicycle through Riccarton, when he rode - into a shop window. Both he and the window suffered, and he was taken to the hospital, with severe cuts' on his hands and face. Edward Barry, aged 19 years, whose relatives reside at Redwooidtown, was loading Bheaves on to a dray on Lankow's farm, near Blenheim, when the load slipped. Barry, fell, and one wheel passed over his chest." 'He was attended by Dr Walker, who held out no hopes of recovery. Barry died on December 29. _ The" body of -Cecilia ConoUy, wife of Herbert- Conolly, was found hanging in her house at Petone on December 30. At the inquest' a verdict of "Suicide -while temporarily • insane " . was returned?.- It ' was. stated that the* husband - had -left .home early in -the. inontK and iad not been heard of since. < " il'^ rt ..- ►/»£- A Jsreman\ nameS Mahoney, of~ y -tne steamer 'Ijatgoiaw, was . drowned in Auckland Haybfflßr on v the Ist,, {Constable Holland heard a rsplashj; and, seeing- »,' man in. the water,- spiang .inland succeeded in getting -him' ashore*. 'Mahoney, who was alive, was removed to the hospital, where he expired "shortly after his admission. ' " A. serious accident occurred at Wanganui. When Mr "and Mrs Arthur Coe were drtv-' ing down Durie Hill the horse bolted, and both were thrown, out of the trap. .Mr "Coe was badly bruised and shaken, and Mrs Coe was removed to tine hospital in. an unconscious state, suffering from concussion 6f the brain, and died on December A drowning fatality occurred at -Napier on December 30. A man named ATthur Sutton, who is,, a storekeeper at Onepoto Gully, was bathing in. the river near the end of Carlyle street. He was 7 accompanied Ly one of his sons and two men named Chaplin anil Moore: After bathing for some time Sutton got out of his depth. lne others went to his assistance, but not being able to* swim were unable to save him. An alarm -was given, and the body was recovered some half an hour later, but lite was extinct. Deceased leaves a wife and four children. . The five-year-old daughter of Mr 'JJ. Draper, of Newton, who sustained severe •burning Injuries as -the result of playing with matches at her home on December 9, died in the Auckland Hospital from the effects of the injuries! »- A child named Kirkpatrick, three years old, was burned to death at Palmerston North, ttirough playing with matches. She had - been .put "in. a T ° om to sleep, but -it is supposed she rose and got matches out of some clothes in the room. She was suffocated and badly burned, only living for about an hour after the accident. An inquest will be held 1 tomorrow. . . Walters, one of the Dundonald survivors, now employed as ft sailor on. the steamer Kennedy, narrowly escaped losing his leg -"on the 3rd.. As the steamer was leaving Westport he got his foot caught in the bight of a rope, and the foot was strained and swelled, and! he was removed to the hospital. The body of an old man named Thomas Ford was found in the Emigration Barracks at Southbridge on the 3rd in a very decomposed state. Alexander "Noble. 70 "years of age, was found dead at Mandeville' on the 4th. He had been ailing for some time. An inquest will probably be held. William Hazlett, a farmer at t South JU.lUend, was killed on the 3rd mst. by a fall of earth, the pick he was using penetrating the abdomen. Deceased was 34years of age. . , A serious accident occurred at Waimate on the 2nd to alittle boy who resides in , Dixon street. The boy was attending to his parents' cattle near the Old Maori Pa grounds, and a bull running among them, and belonging to "the boy's father, rushed the boy, who is about 13 years ,of age, and gored him in the -thigh, ~ Dr Pitts attended him. but it will be several days before the results of the" injury can be fully known. Donald O. Ogilvy, 55 years of age, was found dead on the floor of his bedroom m the. Glasgow Restaurant "on Saturday night. He was seen going towards his room Detween 1 and 8 o'clock, and about 10 o clock was discovered lying with his head doubled under his chest on the floor, quite dead. The bedclothes were lying near him, .and it appe>red as if he had fallen off the bed on to the floor. Dr Martin was called in. and gave it as his opinion that deceasea hgjd been, accidentally SuffocaiEed* Ogilvy, »

is urLdefstood, wag a. Temipah66 mail, and had resided in Dunedin for many years. At the inquest the evident weftt to that deceased was addicted to drink .when he liad the money. The jury r^tyrned a. verdict that death was dye tp suffocation by falling out of bed while In a slate of intoxication/. --• y John H. Sainsbury, licensee iijf the "Whangamata Hotel, was found dead ' in Hb bedroom. The inquest 'showed that" "he "had, taken an overdose of chlorodyne."^ -"Einan"cial and domestic worries are eara -to be the cause. He was 60 years of age. and held the New Zealand war medal. The body of Mrs C. Shaw, was found* In the Waipukuiti River, Ihglewood, on the sth January. iShef left the* house while her husband was milking. She had been suffering from melancholia for about a month.

A man namel Robert Henderson was drowned on the sth while_ bathing at the mouth of the Rangitikei River. The body was recovered next day. A man named Arthur Thomas, employed on a farm at -Ohutu, committed suicide, cutting his throat with a razor. Frederick Rodney, who was employed on th© steamer Himatangi, • was discovered maa Wellington boardinghouse on the 6th. with a severe wound in. his throat "and a bloodstained razor in his hand. It is not considered that the wound' will prove fatal. Mrs Alfred Smith was drowned in the Buller . River >at Jnangahua Junction on Saturday. Deceased was the wife of a well-known cattle-dealer. She was bathing with two "younger" women,- and 'walked out ' in shallow water, but stepped over a ledge of rock into Bft of water, and was drowned.