CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3313, 12 September 1917, Page 45

CASUALTIES.

A single man, Percy Orel, aged 32 years, employed in tho National Mortgage seeds department, Waimate, was discovered by another boarder in a dying condition on the floor of his bedroom at a local hotel at 4.40 a.m. on the 6th inst. He expired before the doctor arrived, seemingly from heart failure. He belonged to Timaru. Tho Superintendent of Police has received advice that Henry Williams, single, aged 74 years, died suddenly at Roxburgh on the 7th inst.

Hector M'Leod, rabbit inspector at Mosgiel, was admitted to tho Hospital on the 7th suffering from a fractured jaw. It transpires that Mr M'Leod went into the stable attached to the Mosgiel Hotel about 2 p.m., and was discovered in a semiconscious condition about an hour later by Mr Buchanan, tho licensee. There were two or three horses in the stable at tho time, and Mr M'Leod was apparently kicked by one of the animals. Dr Peters was communicated with, and the injured man was conveyed to the Hospital by motor car, m charge of Constable Findlay. A milkman named W. Miles had an unusual experience on the 7th. When carrying in ilk from the cow bail to tho dairy lightning struck the milk can and knocked tini down. Miles was dazed, but uninjured. Miss Ida Mann, MA., aged 29 years, & teacher in tho Lyttelton School, who was on two months' sick leave for nervous breakdown, was staying here with her uncle at Timaru. She was apparently recovering; and on Saturday evening was quite cheerful on going to bed. During the night she got up without disturbing anyone, and on Sunday was found dead. A man named Alexander M'Kenzie was brought into the Dunedin Hospital on Sunday from the Otago Heads, suffering from injuries to his head. It appears that he slipped off a seat and struck a bunk with his head, a nasty wound being inflicted. Joseph Wilson, of Oakland street, Anderson Bay, was admitted to the Dunedin Hospital on Saturday evening suffering from injuries to his face and head. Ho was on his way to his work on a bicycle when he niet a motor car and a tram car, each going in the same direction on the Anderson Bay road. It appears that he became somewhat confused and ran into tho tram car. William Harris, of Leith Valley, while riding a motor oycle in that direction on Saturday evening, collided with some bridge works. He was thrown off his machine, and suffered severe injuries to his face. When admitted to the Hospital at 1.30 a.m. on Sunday ho was in a semi-conscious condition.

The Invercargill police received notification on the 7th that Benjamin Gillwalker, a married farmer, aged 45. years, but with no family, hanged himself in his stable at Fernlaw, near Otautau, between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. on the previous day. The verdict of Mr S. E. M'Carthy, S.M., concerning the Te Anau fatality on May 28, when a seaman named Donnelly was fatally burned, was that death resulted from burns. The coroner regretted that the liquid from which the fumes causing the explosion rose had been thrown away. Margaret Davis, aged 34 years, residing with her husband at Remucra, died in the Auckland Hospital on the 10th inst., presumably from having taken spirits of salts in mistake for medicine.

On Sunday George Checkley was riding round his father's sheep farm at Hinemoa (a back-block settlement)", carrying a butcher's knife. Ho was unseated while descending a hill, and the knife entered his side, penetrating the right lung, and making

a serious wound. Checkley lost a considerable amount of blood before he was discovered. He reached the hospital at midnight.

William Moorhead, a waterside worker, aged 65 years, was found drowned in the Auckland Harbour on the 10th inst. There is no evidence to show how the, fatality occurred. He had been missed since Wednesday.

Angus Kennedy, a railway employee, and a single man, committed suicide in Wellington on the 10th inst. by opening an artery in his arm with a razor. The body was found in a bath. A sudden death occurred at Enfield about 2 o'clock on Sunday afternoon, when Mrs W. Marshall expired just on arriving at the Enfield Church to attend the afternoon service (states the Oamaru Mail). The deceased lady had motored from her homo in company with her husband, and was removing her cloak prior to entering the church' when she was seen to fall. A doctor wa» summoned, but life was extinct.