ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13644, 11 July 1908, Page 2

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

' BAD '' SANDWICHES'. ■ Press Association-Bv Telegraph-Copyr'-ghl "I.ONfO.N, July 9. Two -dealing and 100, cases of ptomaine -poiboning vesulted. from eating bad sandwiches made of potted meat at St. Anns Lancashire. TOO MANY IN BED. ' Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, July 10. The circumstances surrounding the •death of Robert Marsden Baines, the yearold child of Daniel James Marsden Baines, wharf labourer, living at Heathcote, wero investigated this morning by the Coroner and a jury. The first witness was a young woman -named Annie Courtney, who stated that she was living at Baines house to look after his children in the absence of Mrs Baines. On Wednesday night witness and her sister Maud (aged seventeen) and Lucy Reilly (aged eighteen) islept in a double bed with three children. Witness with the deceased and another child aged six years slept at'one end of the bed and Lucy Reilly, her child, arid Maud Courtney slept at-,- the other end. There were only two beds'in the house and the second was occupied _ by Baines arid three children.. Witness did not have the baby in her arms. It lay alongside her. 'J he bed clothes were not completely over it and in the morning its arms were outside the blankets. The mother had been away for a week but she ordinarily lived at Heathcote. The deceased baby had a bad chest and used to cough badly. On Wednesday Baines brought home two ,bot- - ties of beer. Witness and the other two girls had two glasses each, but it had no. effect on them. They had drink early in the evening and were sober when they went to bed. Dr Irving who had made a post mortem said that the hodyj was that of a well-developed healthy male child. He thought that death was due to suffocation. He could find no, other possible reason for death, unless the child ' had had a fit. Sleeping under the conditions described, would probably cause asphyxiation. Further evidence "was lizard and the jury returned a verdict that death was caused by accidental suffocation and added a rider that in their opinion the, bed was over-crowded. TDUNEDIN, July 10. Charles Henry Stables, accountant for' P. Havmari and Co., committed suicide by cutting his throat in the bathroom at his residence. He leaves a young widow. Mr Stables rose shortly before 8 o'clock, telling his wife that he meant to get his razor set. He proceeded to the , bathroom, where he put an end to himself. He was wicket-keeper for the Carisbrook B team, a prominent member of several athletic bodies, and a good all-round sportsman.- - He had been married only ten months.. - It is feared .that financial troubles affected him mentally, leading to/ the rash act-. He was thirty years of age. At the inquest the jury returned a verdict of suicide while temporarily insane. ACCIDENT AT JACKSON'S SAWMILL. Mr T. Webb, the foreman turner 'at Messrs J. Jackson and Co's. sawmill, met with a painful accident yesterday morning. While working a lathe a piece of wood s'hich he was turning became loosened from the. centres and flying out struck him in the face, inflicting a nasty' wound- on the' npper lip. Mr Webb was removed to the hospital, where the wound was si itched up.