CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3522, 13 September 1921, Page 25

CASUALTIES.

Walter Smart, a young man, employed as a bricklayer’s labourer in Waimate, sustained a fractured skull and injuries to an eye as the result of a motor somersaulting at 1.2 S a.m. on the 4th inst. The driver, William Jardine, escaped with slight injuries. The accident is supposed to have happened when driving at a good speed and rounding a bend. The -car finished right side up, and facing in the opposite direction. Smart’s condition is serious. At the inquest at Auckland on Frederick .Tames Hammond, solicitor, the coroner found that death was due to an overdose of chloral hydrate. Deceased had been worried for some time about business matters. He suffered from sleeplessness, and the evidence showed that ho was careless in taking medicines. At the" inquest at AVellington on George Henry Guppy, a verdict of ‘‘Suffocation while in a fit” was returned. At the inquest at- Gisborne concerning the death of a man named Leslie Edvvd. Singleton, 25 years of age, who was found dead with a gun lying near him, the coroner returned a verdict that death was the result of a gunshot wound, self-inflicted during a fit of mental depression. A young woman named Bessie Andrews, employed as a housemaid by Mr F. 11. Carr at Macandrew’s Bay, was admitted to ilip Hospital on Sunday with both thighs fractured, caused by slipping on a concrete footpath. Edward Ross Campbell, master of a scow, aged 80 years, died in Auckland Hospital after a. fall on to the deck. Death wa; due to hemorrhage caused by compression on the brain. James (Brady, a waterside worker, was fatally injured while discharging coal from tlie Kawat-iri at Auckland. ihe derrick gave way, striking him 011 the beach He died on his wav to the hospital. A seaman, while riding a. horse at Auckland, collided with a tramcar, receiving injuries from which he died on the 1-lth in the hospital. The deceased’s identity has not yet been established definitely.