ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 11, 29 August 1911, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

(Per Press Association.) Thames, August 28. A Thames man named Wm. Jackson was found dead in the bush at Turua. He left his house at Turua on Sunday morning to go to tho slaughterhouse, where lie is employed, and .as he did not return for dinner a search was made. Ho was found late in tho afternoon lying face downwards on a stump. He was net then dead. A party with a trolley went to fetch him home, but by tho time they arrived lie bad expired. His jaws were broken, and it is presumed that ho took a lie and fell face downwards, and in this manner sustained

the injury. The fatality reported from Turua, where a man named Wm.. Edward Jackson, 48 years of age, married, with seven children, was found dead, proves to bo a suicide. Deceased suffered from pains in the head, and dreaded an operation which was deemed necessary. He took a dynamite cap and fuse, placed the cap in his mouth and exploded it, inflicting terrible injuries. "A verdict of suicide while temporarily insane was returned. Gisborne, August 28. An elderly man, 70 years of ;igo, named Jas. Harris, employed in tho construction of a septic tank in connection with the sewerage system, died suddenly tiiis evening when just knocking off work. Heart failure was the cause, and the doctor’s certificate being available, an inquest may not bo fields Wellington, August 28. The inquest on John Wm. Long, who died in bed at his residence in Sage’s lane at an early hour on Monday, August 20, was resumed to-day before Dr. A. McArthur, coroner. Chief Detective Broberg deposed to arresting a man named Wm. Francis I Lawman, since the inquest was opened, on a charge of killing Long. Mr P. IV. Jackson appeared on behalf of Dowman. Dr. Fyffe, who performed the autopsy, stated that the cause of death was a fracture of the skull. Tho coroner returned a verdict accordingly, and added that lie was of opinion that death was caused by a blow adyninisterod by Dowman in a dispute, and, further, that Dowman was aggravated by tiis deceased before he delivered the blow, which was not given with any intention of causing serious injury, out probably with the intention of preventing deceased from assaulting his wife. The coroner concluded, “I think Dowman acted the manly part in the whole business.’ ’ Gisborne, August 29. A verdict of suicide by hanging was returned in the case of Irmana Tangaoro, tho native found dead in the Port Awanui district.