ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 317, 5 July 1912, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

SUFFOCATED BY FALSE TEETH. : By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, Thursday. A. Fastier, a young woman, the wife of the deputy-stationmaster, met her death in a painfully sudden way this morning about 2 o'clock. Her false teeth became jammed in her throat. Her husband tried to remove them, but, failing to do so, ran for a, doctor, who arrived quickly, but her life was then extinct. ALCOHOLIC POISONING. Wellington, Thursday. The inquest on the ,body of Patrick McAnally, who died in the hospital on Thursday last, was concluded to-day. The Government analyst's report on the contents of the stomach was put in* and the verdict was that death was due to alcoholic poisoning. AN INJURED JOCKEY. Christchurch, Last Night. Retter, the jockey who was injured at Riccarton about a fortnight ago, and has remained unconscious since, was operated on at the hospital this morning, with the object of removing pressure on the brain. He is still unconscious, but less deeply so. There is a possibility of his recovery. FALL OVER A CLIFF. Christchurch, Last Night. George Lennard wan killed to-day at Springfield. Lennard was employed on the Midland Railway works at the Cass, being sent there three days ago through the airencv of the Labor Department. This morning he fell over a high cliff at Springfield, and when he was picked up he was dead. Lennard was a middleaged man. He was not known to anyone at Cass, and had no Mends there.