ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17238, 19 April 1930, Page 8

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

CHILD'S TERRIBLE DEATH (Per Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, last- night. A child aged 21 months, Martin Reesby, son of Arthur LI. Reesby, of Inglewood, wandered on Thursday into a private gaiage next door to his "home. His mother beard him screaming, and found him with his face, chest and clothes terribly burned with sulphuric acid. The child died in Npw Plymouth hospital this morning. The garage was owned by Mr. Hislop, a' herd-tester, and the sulphuric acid, which was used by him in his work, was left in tho garage.

SUICIDE BY POISONING (Per Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, last night. Claude Hadyn Vincent, a painter, aged 38, swallowed a dose, of poison at a boarding-house, and walked across the street to a motor-garage, where l.e collapsed and died in his room. The police found a note, stating that Vincent bad taken poison. They also found a marriage license form tilled in am) dated March 26. 1930. The woman concerned, when interviewed by the police, said she had no knowledge of the marriage license, although it was understood they were to be married.

A soil of Vincent gave evidence at the inquest that he thought bis father bad been married and divorced about ]0 years ago. Vincent had been rather queer ever since be returned from the war.

A verdict was returned of death from pojson, self-administered. CAR MOUNTS PAVEMENT (Por Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. A motor car driven by S. "Thomas, of 47 Great North road, ran on to the pavement at the junction of Queen street and Fort street yesterday afternoon and knocked down women and one man. One of the women received a seyere head wound, and was taken to hospital. Ono. man received the full impact of the ear, but suffered no more than a severe shaking, being thrown backwards, into a shop door.

YOUNG MAN'S SUICIDE (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. "Suicide by gas poisoning," was the verdict by the coroner at the inquest to-day on John Henry Hawes, Z'.i, a single man, who was found by bis father and mother dead at their home on 'April 16. The father found his son lying in the corner of a. room with a sheet pulled round his head.

MOTOR CYCLIST KILLED (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. Fatal injuries were received by a motor-cyclist, Terence Short. 21. of Awnhitu Central, when he collided with a cream lorry in the vicinity of the Pollpjk post office.