ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 51, 6 April 1914, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. \ Press Association. NAPIER, April 5. A labourer, aged 56, who was admitted to the hospital last month, under the name of James Barry, attempted to commit suicide yesterday afternoon by cutting his throat with a razor. He was found in the lavatory by one of the omrses. He afterwards told a priest that his name was and that he came fro/n Palmerston North. DIED IN CHURCH. WELLINGTON, April 5. A tragic occurrence took place at ,{3t. Anne'js Church, Wellington South, on Friday night. While service was feeing held a member of the congregation, Mrs Mary Agnes Jones, a widow, "who resided in Mansfield Street, died Suddenly from heart failure. Dr Gieisen was called. and on arrival pronounced life to be extinct. POISONED HERSELF. NELSON, April 4. Ethel Hammond, aged twenty-five, the wife of K. Hammond, Richmond, committed suicide by taking poison. Deceased had been melancholy since a recent childbirth, no other reason being assignable, as she was happily married. COUNCIL EMPLOYEE'S DEATH. AUCKLAND, April 6. Henry Jouning, a married man employed by the City Council at the rubbish destructor, was jammed against a wall by the pole of a dray to-day, and he. died in a few minutes. RUN OVER BY TRUCK. DUNEDIN, April 6. Joseph Gilkison, aged 38, a ganger, employed at the irrigation works at Ophir, has died as - the result of injuries received through being run over by a truck. A CHILD'S DEATH. The 11-months-old boy John William Rouncey Reynolds who was admitted to #te Hospital on Thursday afternoon suffering from scalds through upsetting a jug of hot beef tea, died at the institution on Saturday. An inquest was held yesterday before Mr H. W. 'Bishop. Dr'A. M. Trotter, house surgeon, said that the cause of death was shock and septic absorption caused by the burns. Ethel Reynolds, the mother of the child, deposed-that on Thursday she had just strained some beef tea; and had placd the basin containing the hot liquid on a bench, fully six inches from the eflge. While her back was turned the child tipped the basin.over itself. The child could only just stand, and she could not understand how it reached the fcasin. The coroner returned a verdict that tfcwih was caused by burns.

A SUDDEN CALL. An inquest was held yesterday into the death of Sarah Clayton, a Spreydon resident, who died suddenly on Saturday evening. She had been in poor health for five years, but on Saturday there appeared nothing seriously amiss with her. Towards 5 p.m., however, she complained of pain, and went to bed. She died soon after. Dr Sandstein made a post-mortem examination, and found that death was due to hemorrhage from a duodeval ulcer. A verdict in accordance with the medical testimony was return «<!..