ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 48, 11 October 1911, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

(Per, Pre-s Association )

Christchurch, October 10

Daisy Florence Turner, . between sixteen and seventeen years of age, in the service of Mrs Hy. Forwood, at St. Albans, was found dead in bed this morning. The gas in the bedroom was turned on, and death was apparently caused by asphyxiation. The inquest was opened this afternoon. The evidence showed that the girl was found dead shortly after seven o’clock, and that the post mortem examination showed that the probable Cause of death was poisoning by an illuminant gas. The coroner stated that in view of private medical information, be would reserve bis verdict, in order to enable a microscopical examination being made of the girl’s night attire. Dunedin, October 10.

Charles .lolin Ayers, aged 28 years, who met with an accident at Hudson’s biscuit factory on September 21st, died in the hospital to-day. While Ayers was on a ladder making alterations to a pulley, one of tiic rungs broke, and lie fell some fifteen feet to the ground, striking the edge of a trolley and severely lacerating bis abdomen. He had sufficiently recovered to be able to got. about in the hospital grounds, but two days ago be took a turn for the worse.