ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Southland Times, Issue 17464, 2 October 1913, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

CHRISTCHURCH FATALITIES,

(Per United Press Association.)

CHRISTCHURCH, October. 1. «■

An inquest was held into the circum* stances connected with the death of Hertry Metcalfe, aged 50 years, a tailor residing in Springfield road, St. Albans, who died suddenly on Hereford street yesterday afternoon. A verdict of death, from heart failure was returned. A mental hospital patient named Peter Woolley died last night after undergoing an operation for rupture.

UNUSUAL CIRCUMSTANCES

AUCKLAND, October I.

Tli e / circumstances connected with th* death of Lawrence Vartan Wilson, a tailor, aged twenty years, the victim of a motor car accident at Mangere on Sunday last, were shown to be of ah un-( usual nature at the inquest this morn-1 ing, before the Coroner (Mr E. C. Cut-i ten! S.M.), as the medical evidence was| to -the effect that the deceased was a. victim of haemophilia (“a bleeder). Dr l McGuire, Medical Superintendent of thei Hospital, said that deceased was admitted on September 29, with the history’ of having been thrown out of a motor car. He had a fracture of the right collarbone. He said, too, that he waSI what was known as “a bleeder.” ShortlyJ after admission, his collarbone was set-i The day following his shoulder was! very much swollen, and he was veryi blue in colour. He sank rapidly, and) died at 7 p.m. on the evening of the 29th. The cause of death was a fracture of th9j right collarbone, taumatic (?) hemorrhage, and hemorrhage due to what was known as haemophilia, which was at congenital defect, affecting the coagulating property of the blood. Any slight wound might cause such a subject to bleed to death, and one rarely lived beyond the age of twenty years. The de-| ceased’s mother had said that she had! experienced trouble with him, and It was a wonder that he lived so long. A! verdict in accordance with the 'medical; testimony was returned, the Coroner recording that the injuries were accident-* ally received. AN ANCIENT MAORI WOMAN. WANGANUI, Bept SO. ' Mary Pikltea, a Maori woman, reputed to be fully one hundred and four yeara of age, died at Parikino on Saturday* She went through the war with her third husband, who was an officer tm-* der Major Kemp.

A STUDENT’S DEATH.

DUNEDIN, Sept. 30.

At the inquest on Rutherford NichoL a medical student of Knox College, who died as the result of injuries sustained by a fall of earth while deceased, -with others, was excavating a fives court, the evidence showed that students had been previously engaged during the summer months at similar work. The Coroner found that death was caused by shock, and hemorrhage, no blame being attachable to anyone. AUCKLAND FATALITIES. AUCKLAND, Sept. 59. Percy Butler, a farm labourer, age# twenty-seven, was admitted to the hospital from Hunua, with his throat severely cut, and died last night. It is alleged the wounds were self-inflicted. Lawrence Wilson, a tailor, aged twenty, who was injured on Sunday through the collapse of the wheels of a motor car in which he was riding, died in the hospital last night.