ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Southland Times, Issue 20627, 7 March 1929, Page 7

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

FOUND DEAD IN HOUSE.

(Per United Press Association.)

Christchurch, March 6

Suicide while in a depressed state of mind was the verdict of the Coroner, Mr Lawry, S.M., at the inquest into the death of Peter Hunt, found dead in his house at New Brighton last night. There was a gas tube in Hunt’s mouth, a blanket over his head and all windows and doors in the house tightly closed. Evidence was given by friends of Hunt to the effect that he suffered acutely from war injuries, especially in cold, damp weather and always was of a morbid disposition and recently seemed more than usually morbid. He had also been in a very excitable nervous condition about February 25 when last seen alive. On February 21, Hunt complained to the local police of someone prowling round the house at night. MINER KILLED. Westport, March 6. John Bell, a miner, single, employed in the Westport Coal Company’s Millerton mine, was killed to-day through an inrush of boiling water from a fire section in the mine. The stopping broke away and the boiling water flowed into the place where Bell was working.