ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 37, 8 February 1912, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

(Per Press Association.) Auckland, February 7. A child named Robert Cuthbertson, aged two years, died from scalds at the hospital to-day, as a result of pulling avessel of boiling water over himself. Christchurch, February 7. The midday train from Christchurch to Rangiora ran into a motor car at the Styx railway crossing and struck the car full on the side. Brown, the driver of the car, was killed instantly. The other man,whose name, is unknown, died in a few minutes. Details are meagre. Brown travels for the Overland Car Co.

An inquest was held at Lyttelton this morning before Mr A. W. Bishop, District Coroner, on the body of Thomas Heeligan, who was found dead in his bed in the. firemen’s “batch” yesterday morning. The coroner returned a verdict that Heeligan died from suffocation, due to excessive alcolohl.

A man named Thomas Brackley, belonging to Ashburton, died at the hospital to-day from corrosive poisoning. At the inquest to-night the evidence showed that the man had bought a sleeping draught from a local chemist, and had also got two powders somewhere else. He took one of the powwers, and that is supposed to have •>een the cause of death. A verdict of death from poisoning, there being no evidence to show where the man got it, was returned. Reefton, February 7. An old digger, named Michael Carroll, aged 72 years, committed suicide at Soldiers’ Creek, by blowing out his brains.