ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16464, 17 June 1919, Page 4

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

A CASE 0F SUICIDE. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND,, Juno 16. Charles Theodore Victor Campbell, aged 31 years, a coaohwright of Invercargill, committed suicide to-day on top of Mount Eden. Deceased, who was visiting his brother (both being returned soldiers), and, when on Mount Eden, ho made some excuse and left his D v other for a moment. When the lat ter went in search of him ho found deceased had cut the main artery in the left arm with a razor. He died almost immediately.

DROWNED IN A STREAM. CHRISTCHURCH June 10. A young man named Thomas Hood has been missing from the farm of his uncle at Rakaia since Juno 6, and yesterday his body was found in four feet of water in an irrigation stream. There were stones in his pockets, and a kerosene tin containing stones was tied by a wire round the neck. On the bank were bis watch and a. few last messages. Deceased was 20 years of ago, and his parents reside at Edeudale, Otago. Ho left with the Main Body and was at tbe landing on Gallipoli, lining subsequently wounded in tho shoulder. Ho returned to New Zealand about two years ago.

INQUESTS AT CHRISTCHURCH. CHRISTCHURCH, June 16. The coroner (Mr. S. E. M'Canby) held two inquiries to-day regarding the the deaths of two male infants. In tho first case, that of a male infant found on tho bank of the Heathcote River on May 26, the police stated that every effort had been made to ascertain who was the, mother of the child, but without success. The coroner, in returning a verdict that tho bo.dy of an infant had been found near tbe Heathcote River, bad it recorded that tho body ol tho child bore no marks of violence. It was enclosed in a "bag, and had but little clothing on it. The child had lived, and had been bom healthy. Whoever placed the child in that exposed position did not intend that the child should live.

In regard to the finding of tho body of an infant in tho Avon River, near Victoria Street Bridge, yesterday, Dr Pearson, pathologist at, the public hospital, said the body- was in an advanced stage of decomposition. A thick string was attached to the body aionnd the nock, the right shoulder and accross the chest, and it was tied under tho left shoulder. The body- was that of a newborn full-time male child, which had lived for a short period, probably a few hours. The body had been placed in the water after death. It had not been drowned. The following verdict was returned; “I find there was found in the Avon River, near Victoria Street Bridge, the dead body- of a male unknown child, which had only lived a few hours after birth. I further find that the dead child had been placed in the river by some person unknown with a view to concealing it, and that it had been neglected by those responsible for its care with a view to causing its death.”