ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 95, 29 April 1913, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

TERRITORIALS IN HOSPITAL. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] Dannevirke, April 28. The Territorials remaining in the Dannevirke Hospital are on the way to recovery. Harry Banks, a Wellington Territorial was admitted on Saturday night suffering from a fractured arm which was sustained while wrestling. FATAL TRAP ACCIDENT. Dannevirke, April 28. At the inquest on James Smith, who was found dead at Kiritaki, the evi- ! dence showed that the cart deceased was driving was capsized, crushing him and causing injuries which resulted in his death. A PECULIAR FATALITY. Dunedin, April 28. An inquest was held at the morgue this afternoon on the body of George Newton Wilson, aged 43, who died suddenly yesterday. The evidence of Dr. McPherson disclosed that death had been caused by a curious mishap. Mrs Wilson had deposed that deceased had an unusually big meal at midday on Sunday. The doctor found that the stomach contained an enormous quantity of food, while upon opening the larynx he found about a talbespoonful of the stomach contents in it. The man had gone to sleep upon an overloaded stomach, and brought up a mouthful of food, which had gone back into the air passages. The Coroner (Mr C. C. Graham) returned a verdict of death from suffocation, as the result of vomit entering the air passages.