ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 79, 23 March 1908, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Per Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. At the inquest concerning the death of Frederick Kennard, who was found with his throat cut at his mother's resi■j donee on Friday, it was shown he had u been drinking heavily for some time. A ' vordict of suicide while temporarily in- . , (ami was returned. £' At the inquest on Halph William 0 Baird, who mot his death by falling from ; scaffolding at a quarry, a verdict of | death from internal injuries caused by ' a fall was retunred. Bunedin, Last Night. At the inquest on the body of Janiea flrady, who died 011 Friday as the result of injuries sustained by a railway accident on Wednesday week, the medi- , cal evidence showed that deceased sua- ) tawed a lacerated sealp wound on tlin ( back of the head, and an extensive frac- , ture, part of the skull being broken off, and the brain tissue pulped. The jury , returned a verdict that death was caus- , ed by deceased having been accidentally struck by a railway train in motion. At the inquest on tho body of Mra. Hubbard, aged 57, who was found on .Tomahawk beach, the jury were of opinion that there were no suicidal sfignjsj and that deceased must liavo been walking round tho cliff, and taking a lit, fell into the water. They returned a verdict that deceased was found drowned, but there was not sufficient evidence to show how she got into the water. De'cteased's husband said she was an inmate of a mental hosipital twelve months ago, but since her discharge had shown no signs of suicidal tendency.