CASUALTIES.
Mrs John Harris, a widow 58 years of ; age, has been found dead in bed in her house at Woolston, Canterbury, with a five chamber revolver, one chamber being discharged, lying beside Jier. Deceased visited her son at Lyttelton on the 10th. instant, and returned home, but had not been seen since that time:" The son went to see her mother o; August 24, but jound the house locked up. On the police breaking in they found the woman as described with a bullet wound in her head. Mrs Eliza Galloway, a widow, living at Burwood, who has been in. ill-health for some time, disappeared on August 23, and on a search being made she was found drowned in the river flowing past her property Mr T. A. B. Bailey, district coroner, hrfd an inquiry on the £4th, and returned a verdict of death from, drowning, but said there was no evidence to show the deceased's state of mind at the time. He thought the man who found the <body ha* 5 committed an error of judgment by not attempting to recover the body directly he noticed it. A woman named Joan M'Laren, aged 82 years, died 'suddenly od Angus* 24 at her home in Howe street. She resided only a few doors from her daughter, Mrs Baird, who states that her mother was in her usual state of health when she retired to bod the previous night. Charles Beard, whilst clearing a fence line at Motu, Poverty Bay, was struck by the branch of a tree, which tore away his right eye and portion of the side of his face. Suffering great agony, he was carried by stretchers on a sledge for many miles, and brought to the Gisborne Hospital. At the inquiry at Wellington into the death of Ernest R. Redding, a young married man, who died suddenly some days ago, the Government analyst stated that the contents of the stomach contained no poison, neither did the contents of a bottle of medicine prescribed for. deceased. The verdict wa3 " Death from pneumonia." A young man named George Clare died mi the Dumstan Hospital on August 24 of typhoid fever. He was received into the Hospital on Sunday, having been ill only a few days. Deceased was 19 years of age and was the son of Mr John Clare, of Matakanui. An inquest wae held at Christchurch touching the death of Peter Fox, aged 75 years, ■ who died at the hospital from injuries, sustained through being gored by a bull. , William John Muir said that on August 19 he was killing at the abattoirs, and was down the yard getting a steer up when Fox caur><* along and was going into the yard. Witness ! warned him izoi to do so. Fox started i to get through the railings when the bullock charged him, and put' its horn through the leg of his trousers, preventing him from getting out. The animal then charged him again three times, although witness did his best to get him off. Witness then got the bullock's head outside the rail. He then got hold of Fox, who said, " I'm hurt." and laid him on the grass. The Coroner returned a verdict that deceased died from injuries accidentally received. George Roycroft, ont of a gang of riveters engaged in erecting agitating tanks at the Grand Junction battery, Waihi, fell from a platform near the top of a tank on August 25, fa.lling a distance of 50ft. He was taken to Uie hospital in an unconscious condition, and succumbed to his injuries on the 26th. As the result of a kick received when playing in the football match Napier v. Uisborne Cadets a few days ago J. C. Lang, aged 17 years, is lying in the hospital in a critical condition, an operation having disclosed a large clot of blood on his chest. A .somewhat serious accident occurred at Hokitika on the 27th. Mrs Paul Renton and Mrs Grant, wife of the local stationmaster, were out driving in a trap, and on turnoff the Arahura Riv-er bridge one of the wheels went off tike road. The horse became frightened on account of one of the shafts being driven into its body, and
both ladies were thrown out of the trap. Mrs Renton received a severe shaking and rather serious internal injuries. J. Chapman, who recently entered into partnership with Mr Riddle, painter and paperhanger, Eltham, was found on August 28 in a room at the back of their shop with his tkroat cut and a. razor Jying near the body. Lifer had been for jseveral hours. Little is known locally of- .the deceased, whose wife resides at Levin. Vincent Ferrara died at/the Wellington Hospital on August 27. His death said to have been caused by a dose of lysol. The deceased was formerly cook on the steamer Jane Douglas, and of late had beer conducting a supper tooto at Auckland.; An inquest was held on August °8. Thfl doctor said he had asked deceased before he died if he had swallowed lysol, and the answer was, "Yes; I did." A verdict was returned that deceased died from the effects of poison, but there was not sufficient evidence to show, whether it was taken accidentally or intentionally, the coroner having come, to that conclusion owing to the fact that a small flask of whisky was found in or on a chest of drawers alongside a bottle of lysol. Ferrara was an Italian. The Timaru Herald states that the man Philip 'Desmond, who was picked up on the road at Orari in an unconscious state on Wednesday night, has completely regained consciousness and is on a fair way to recovery. It has been ascertained that he came to New Zealand from Hobart about six months ago, "and had been working in Wellington at his trade as an engineer. He is a married man and his wife and children are in Tasmania. His wife wrote over to him asking him to return home with all haste as their baby was dying, and he was travelling . south (walking and working his way) when he was overcome by a fit on Wednesday last. His intention was to catch ' the first boat he could for Hobart. The body of A. G. Baxter, the Singer sewing machine agent, who was drowned in the Little Grey River on July 27, was recovered on August 29. At Cbristohurch on tbe a van, belonging to Mr G. Ritchie, carrier, andf a tramcar returning to the square frpm Edgeware road, collided at the intersection of Chester and Colombo streets, with the result that a young man named Birmingham was severely injured, and the conveyance was badly damaged. It appears that Ritchie, Birmingham, and) another young man were driving from Chester street over Colombo street to Oxford terrace. The van had just reached the line, when the car caught the back of it and capsized it. Tha horse was knocked down, and the occupants were thrown into the roadway. Birmingham was severely cut about tha I head and body, and Ritchie also received) slight injuries. Birmingham was con- [ veyed to the hospital.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2894, 1 September 1909, Page 29
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