ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 87, 2 May 1901, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

pen PJtBSS ASSOCIATION. Palmers ton Nouth, May 1. The mm who committed suicide yesterdiy is named Johann E. Jansen. At the inqutst & verdict of tempararily it-sann was returned by the jury. The ovidence showed d c n-ed wag g«atly upset ot late through f imily troubles. Aucklakd, May 1. At the erquiry into the citcumstances relating to the deith of John McQuire who diid at the Auckland hospital iliVieform, witnesses were eximioed iucludi'ig Dr. Lewis, who made the poo mortem, and Dr. Sco w .t who was perform'ng an operation ou the ios9 (f (!*c ustid when he erpirtd. Dr. Liwis deposed that while certain of the org > lis » ere of abnormal growths and the hwirt was not in its 4 normal condition, the general health of .deceased was such that he would not ascribe death to these eauses. Certain of the lelttivei alleged that on asking fgr an explanation from Dr, Adams, of the perm moot s r .nfi, who administered the chloroform, come two fir thr< e bou s after deith they ware informed the hem was perfectly stand an I death was the result of " an uoforas en accident through the use of k wroog instrumuut." This statement they said was then qualified by the doctor stating tha*. death wag due to < ihe use of" an ius lviment," the werd " wrong " being omitted in the qualifi* cation. Dr. Scott B'id there was no r«asin whatever for the suggestion that a wrong instrument had br en used, or that a correct iuftru.netjt had been used, or that a correct instrument wag wrongly used. The inquiry will bo continued on JF.iday.