ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13311, 13 June 1907, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Per ■-, Press Association. AUCKLAND, June 12. Benjamin Rowsell, 'a mail • about, fortytwo years, of age, committed suicide last "night, He was a mediical man and held in high esteem'by a large circle, of friends to whom his tragic death caused a-great shock. He had been (travelling in the South Sea Islands, more especially with a view to study elephantiasis. He had been in Auckland "for the past eighten months, and was especially well-Jpiown as secretary of the St. George Rowing Club. v The proprietor of the Commercial Hotel, with whom Rowsell had been Staying, received a letter this morning stating that lus body would be found either ■ at St. Stephens Cemetery, Parnell or at Orakei, and asking the. proprietor to communicate with tho police. Rowsell's body was found at Parnell cemetery. NAPIER, June 12. The inquest on the body of Alice Caro-. line Simpson, a voung married Avoinan, who died suddenly about three weeks ago, was resumed yesterday, when the-report of the Colonial Analyst on the contents of the .stomach was available. The. analyst found minute traces of a strong blistering irritant, but too small to identify. He suggested ' that it might be antharitic. Further evidence failed to elicit any. information as to how tho poison could have been taken by the deceased, as she was partly an invalid, and there was nothing of a poisonous nature about the house. Tho iury found that death was due to inflammation accelerated by some irritant, but how obtained there was no evidence to show. CHRISTCHURCH, June 12. An engine-driver named Douglas- Young, who was engaged' la<?t night with his engine rmmirip; trucks down the railway-yard near Colombo Street, ran diagonally into three trucks standing upon' an adjacent sioVng. The engine just fiiiled to clear the trucks and Young jumped off the engine and was crushed between it and'tho- stationary trucks. Young's chest'was badly crushed and he was dead wlien picked up. ivas a married man and leaves one child. An inauest was held to-night touching the death of Douglas Young, a railway eniririe-driver, wlio was killed last night while engaged in 'shuntinir operations in the railway yard. A verdict ivas returned that death wn." due to injuries received bv beino; crushed between two engines. Railway" men who were : called as witnesses, s'.at?d that tho trucks with which dficeawd's train collided' were foiil of the track, although thev had been placed in a fafo position. The City Council men who were loading the trucks stated tha.fc lluv had not interfered with their position. ' TNYERCARGILL. June 12. Mr Robert Watson, aged. 68, n. farmer of Oivti Planus was found.dead in his trap ,on Winton Road this morning. The cause of death is supposed to have been heart disease. \