ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 48, 21 October 1912, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

A FISHERMAN’S DEATH. (Per Press Association.) Dunedin, October 19. Thomas Erridge, a fisherman of Carey’s Bay, Port Chalmers, 42 years of ago, and married, was knocked down by a grocer’s cart in Mac Andrew Road on Saturday evening and picked up unconscious. Ho was taken to the Cottage Hospital, where he died today without regaining consciousness. SUDDEN DEATH IN GAOL. Wellington, October 20. A prisoner named Frederick Williams died suddenly at the Terrace Gaol this morning at 8 o’clock. The deceased laid his breakfast and afterwards tidied up his cell. Some few minutes before nine o’clock, when the prisoners were preparing for church service and exercise, the prison officer visited the deceased’s cell and found the man lying on the floor, expiring. He had evidently just finished folding his blankets, because lie had them all ready to place in their proper position. Williams, who was 38 years of ago, was sentenced at Napier on February 21, 1911. to five years’ imprisonment for breaking and entering at Napier. At no time had lie complained of sickness. He was of a quiet disposition, and was never troublesome. A death under somewhat peculiar renin.stances is rep.-rted from To Kopuru, on the Kaipara Harbour, the vicrim being Winnie Godfrey, six years of ago. It appears th;\t her mother gave the little girl some apole parings to throw out, hut she ate them instead, and developed illness, becoming unconscious. She was taken to To Kopuru Hospital, but medical aid proved unavailing.