ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144129, 26 June 1913, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A MAN POISONED. ~ Per Press Association. PALMERSTON N., June 25. ' , To-night at 9.30 two local residents discovered, in one of the Square reserves, a man suffering violently from, the effects of poison. ‘ The man was unconscious. A doctor and the pohee wero brought to the scene, but the man died in about half an hour. Ho had taken the whole contents of a small bottle of Ivsol, and lay down on the seat to die. On searching the body the police found that the man’s nafne was T. Gilligan. No other details aro available. He was aged about 35 years, of medium height, dark, and in shabby clothes. A VICTIM OP HALLUCINATIONS. CHRISTCHURCH, June 25. An old man named Francis Purs, 69 years of age, was admitted to the hospital this a’fternoon suffering from enta self-inflicted. The affair took place in the public gardens, to which the old man was almost a daily visitor. Ha had been in low spirits lately, and suffered from hallucinations, and this afternoon took it into his head to hack himself wih a penknife. Ho inflicted a nasty wound in his wrist, and cut himself about in other ways, losing a considerable quantity of blood in the process.