ACCIDENTS, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 10282, 10 January 1922, Page 2

ACCIDENTS, ETC.

Mrs Owen, the second victim of : Friday morning’s tragedy at Eltham ‘ died ou Friday night. The imiuesi 1 opened, but no additional facts of : importance were disclosed. I William Hunter, single, 4'J, bootmaker, Clinton (Southland), com- • milted suicide' by taking poison on ' Sunday morning. ■ A drowning fatality occurred at 5 Foxton on Sunday evening near the I wharf, the victim being Larra Heni skie, aged fifteen. Deceapfed was '■ paddling in the water w/tlvit young ' man, Irwin Wright, amp's)! pped over ,1a ledge into deep water. Sire clung I’to Wright, who got out yin ah ex- - hausted condition. A ybung man - named William Retter sjafev tlie ac- - cidcnt and dived several ftimes, but - was unable to find the botjy owing to the muddy state and depth of the water -r t I Yesterday morning about 5.30 I o’clock the body of Stanley Woods, L aged 52, who was occupied as carei taker at Bockaert’s motor garage, was found dead below the clay bank • in Bank Street, Timaru. According i to the statements of the police there i were no. indications of foul play or • evidence that the man took his own : life. He was working at the garage f on Sunday and left for home soon after 10 p.m., being relieved by the night watchman. He appears to have fallen face downwards, as there was > an abrasion on his! face and his nose had bled somewhat, An intjuosl will , be held to-day. ...... A sad case of a sudden illness. - terminating fatally, occurred at Dun- - edin on Saturday last. "Airs Henry I Ede, wife of a Timaru carpenter 30 ~ years of age, took her children for a . holiday and arrived at on . Christmas Eve. On Friday evening. - after having had lea with her - brother-in-law (Mr Bremncr). .she . went out to do some shopping, ami was seized with a fit of giddiness. - These turns kept recurring, and two ’ medical men who were called in . diagnosed the trouble us internal hemorrhage and a post mortem examination confirmed this. At the 3 inquest, a verdict was returned that , death was caused by shock and col- ;■ lapse due to internal hemoi rhage. A girl named Eva Ruth Paterson, - 15 years of age. was drowned at ■ Beaumont on Friday, while bathing. Her body was recovered very quick- ; ly. but efforts to resuscitate life