ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144084, 1 May 1913, Page 2

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

DEATH FROM SUFFOCATION; Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, April 30. An inquest was held to-day on tha body of Mrs... Hannah. Knight, aged 5# .years, who was found dead in an outhouse at her residence, Oxford Street, yesterday. Medical evidence showed 1 that; the cause of death was inhalation into the trachea, of vomit, an almost identical ease with that of the man Wilson, who died on Sunday. The, coroner returned a verdict of “death from suffocation,” the cause being : accidental lodgment of vomit in the trachea. SUICIDE OF A TRAVELLER. DUNEDIN, April 30. Evidence at the inouest on the body of Reginald Irving Johnston, who com- . mitted suicide at the Gladstone Hotel yesterday, disclosed certificates of membership of the United Commercial Tra- . vellers’ Association of Australasia, and disclosed the further fact that he travelled for i T.'L. Elliott and Co., of Birmingham. A letter showed deceased's private address was Elizabeth Street, Melbourne. He -seemed to bo about 3(5 or 37 years of age, and there was nothing in his possession to indicate why he committed the act. The coroner re- • turned a. verdict-of “suicide .by cutting his throat, there being no evidence to show deceased’s state, of mind at -the time.” Correspondence indicated that deceased was married. SUDDEN DEATH. CHRISTCHURCH, April 30. Mr. Colin Cook, a well-known resident of Lyttelton, of which he has been Mayor, died suddenly this evening, presumably from heart disease. ■ Ji WOMAN’S SUICIDE. CHRISTCHURCH, April 30. A married woman named Mary fane Thomas, 28 years of age, committed suicide at her residence at St. Martin s this morning. Sho had been despondent lately. This morning a neighbour went to the house after her husband had left for work, but found the doors, locked. The husband was communicated with, hnd he broke into the house and found that the deceased had hanged herself to the handle of the bedroom door. A verdict was returned of suicide whilst of unsound mind.