CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3511, 28 June 1921, Page 25

CASUALTIES.

It, hits been repovtcci to the police that Norn)an James Waite, single, aged 29, a farmer at Kowpaurahi, was found dead on his farm with a gun lying beside him. The coroner returned a. verdict of suicide. r lhe deceased was despondent ever the stock marked fluctuations. A half-caste Maori named Charles William Beck, aged 22, collapsed when playing football at I'atca on the 18th. lie died on admission to the hospital. A motor car containing a party capsized over a 70ft embankment in Otaki Gorge on the 19th. Miss Joplin was badly injured and others were severely shaken. Miss Joplin died on the< 21st without regaining consciousness. Mr C. Woreley, manager of the Kahutara Dairy Factory, when removing a shotgun from his boat on the 17th inst., accidentally caught the hammer on tne thwart. The gun exploded, and blew away the tissues of his wrist, and th§ pellets entered and badly lacerated the muscles of his upper arm. Dirt and grass were also blown into the wound. 'File injured man was removed ti the Greytown Hospital, and is doing well. The dead body found on the beach at Birkenhead on Tuesday has been identified as that of Myrtle Underhill Ingles, who formerly lived with her parents at Thames, and later at, Hamilton, where she resided with her mother since her father's death. Deceased was 28 years old and single, and came to Auckland on holiday. William John Perry, single, aged 38, employed on his father's farm at Waitohi, was found dead on the 21st inst. on the road from Toi/ruka. beneath a gig, of which the shafts were broken and the horse missing. Mr John Robert Thompson, chemist. Wyndham. was found dead in his bed at 0.30 p.m. on the 18th. lie was nor, physically strong, and on the Friday night had complained of feeling unwell; and on Saturday kept to his bed. Deceased was 30 years of age, and recently married. He was a native of Clamant, and was well qualified as a chemist. He bought the business of Mr R. Winning, who is now in business in Invercargill, and had been carrying- it on since about November, 1917. A young woman named Fauchelle, a school teacher, while crossing the railway yards on her way to Taumarunui School was knocked down by a shunting engine, and badly injured about the arm, logs, and face. She was removed to the hospital. Through a petrol lamp exploding, Eolando MT.a-y, aged 15, and Jov M‘Lay, aged eight, daughters of a railway ganger at Arthur’s Pass, and Clarence George Davis, aged 20. a truck-hand, were severely burned about the face and hands on the 22nd. They were brought to Christchurch by special train and admitted to the hospital. At the inquest at Temuka on the death of William J. Perry, found dead on the roadside on Tuesday evening, the coronetfound that deceased met his death by being thrown from a gig. Walter Bracewell. an inmate of Sunnyside Mental Hospital, committed suicide on the 24th by hanging himself. Deceased was tried at Auckland in 1904 on a charge of attempted murder, and found insane. He was committed to Avondale Mental Hospital and transferred to Sunnyside in 1916. Somers Edwards, aged 27. who won the D.C.M. during the war, when attempting to board a train at Otalmhu, fell between two carriages. The train pulled up promptly, and Edwards was found between the carriages and station platform, unconscious and partly stripped of his clothing. He was conveyed to the hospital, and an operation performed. The injured man is in a serious condition. A visitor from Wanganui, Mr Armstrong Mewburn, of the boot importing firm of Messrs Mewburn and Crichton (Wanganui)* was knocked down by a tramcar in Queen street, Auckland, on the 25th, dying a. few minutes later. He was a married man. and was 50 years of age. Ho had no children. Death was the result of internal hemorrhage.