ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VII, Issue 2029, 16 August 1920, Page 11

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

AN INFANT'S DEATH. An inquest was held yesterday by Mr S. B. McCarthy, S.M., Coroner, on the body of a six-weeks-old infant, Stephen Henry Burt, who died on Saturday night while sleeping with its mother at ;.V> Andover Street, Merivale. The mother, Mrs Hilda Annie Burt, of Swannanoa, stated that she retired about 9 p.m. on Saturday, and went to sleep with the child resting on her arm. When she awoke about 8 a.m., it was dead. The child had suffered from a severe cold almost since its birth. Dr 11. L. Widdowson said that, in his opinion, deatli was due to broncho-pneumonia. The Coroner returned a verdict in these terms, and added the following rider: — "I would again direct attention to the danger arising from a mother sleeping with her infant —though in the present case At-.-, hj was not due to suffocation." FOUND DEAD. [Special to The Sun.] ASHBUBTON, August 10. The police have received advice that the body of an old age pensioner, Michael McAvey, was found on a roadside, about four miles from Methven, this morning. The deceased was last seen on Thursday, when his horse and trap were found' by Mr McNeil, straying on the road. McAvey, when discovered, was lying among gorse, witli his boots off, about four the Springfield Estate, where he had a hut. His family resides at Ashburton. FOUNDSHOT. Frets Association. DUNEDIN, August 16. Alexander Bobbie, a clerk in the Railway Department, aged\ 56, was found In a dying condition in a cellar attached to his residence yesterday afternoon, with a wound in the temple. A pea-ride was lying beside him. KILLED BY A FALL. ' DUNEDIN, August 1(1. Thomas Beale, aged 16, was killed at I Carey's Bay yesterday by falling over au embankment on to the railway line.