ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Southland Times, Issue 17595, 6 March 1914, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

M f.S DOOCKY'S DEATH. (Per United Press Association.) DUXEDIX. March 4. Tii© inquest in connection with the death of Mrs Mary Duocey. who hied suddenly on Saturday night. was resumed this afternoon. Two witnesses (Alexander Gunn and Edward U-vbio). who were standing rear where the accident occurred, said they saw no man under the influence of liquor. Katherine Doocey. age,] iwtlvc. daughter of deceased, wiio was walking in front of 1> r mother, said she saw a drunk man. who, she though, bumped against deceased. Dr Koherts. Hon. pa I hob.gisi at (lie hde.pital. sai'i lo- made a post mortem examination. There w'r no external marks. Opening the brain he found the floor of the |efi ventricle torn up by hemorrhage and ventricle distended witli blood. The kidneys wore in an early state of chronic inflammation, a condition which is usually associated with disease of the artery vessels and he regarded it as a case of spontaneous hemorrhage and thought that the fall had nothing io do with it. The case was hopeless from the start. Tin- Magistrate said it was plain from ti.-. •• , idence that tin- fall in ll.c street linn nothing lo do with death whatever. A v.e diet. Wits returned of death from n; • ! caus-s. namely inlercerebral sure tint* to eei- heal hemorrhage. DEAD IX BED. March 5. Thomas Jackson, thirty-six, a single rpan, was found dead in bod this morning. An inquest will be held. Yesterday morning a boy named Wm. Angus was admitted to the Southland Hospital suffering acutely from the results of a dose of spirits of paU?. which he took in mistake for !e----tronade. H? is now on his way to recovery.