ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 89, 19 August 1913, Page 7

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

U'i ' U. ! kj ~ l — 1 ■■■Jit !; Jr:■ .. i- ■ A PITIABLE DEATH. fPs-rn! 1 Press Association.] Jchnstclfurc.h, August IS. On Wednesday last, a lyonug man named Walter Price mas found in a state-of helpless drunkenness near the railway bridge* at Woolston. He appeared before the Court on Thursday morning, and 'Stated”that he mas suffering from asthma and consumption. As he appeared to he in a had state ho mas remanded for medical treatment until to-day. Price died in the hospital this morning. At the inquest a verdict mas returned that death, mas due to cardiac failure, brought on by pericarditis and pneumonia. AX OLD MAX’S DEATH. Dunedin, August 18. Patrick Hogan, an old man mho mas admitted to the hospital on August 8, suffering from a fracture of the leg sustained through a rafter falling on him froifi a building in the course of demolition, died in the hospital yesterday. SHOT IX A BOOKSHOP. Wellington,''August IS. Charles Eellomes Page, advertising specialist, a married man, about -12 years of ago, shot himself in the head with a revolver in S.'and W. McKay’s, bookshop on Lam'iton Quay this evening. He came from Boston, United States, and had been in Xom Zealand for about three years. He mas removed to the hospital, mlierc his condition mas found to lie very serious.