CASUALTIES.

Timaru Herald, Issue 170307, 1 September 1920, Page 7

CASUALTIES.

SUDDEN DEATH AT WAIMATE.

About 7.30 yesterday morning an elderly lady named Miss Sarah Hester Molloy- was found lying, unconscious in a paddock adjacent to' her home in Junction Road, Waimate. Medical aid was summoned, and she was removed to a private hospital, where she died, without regaining consciousness, at 9.45 <a.m. Up to the time of her death she had always enjoyed tho Lest of health. , She was 52 years old, and came to New Zealand "from Ireland thirty years ago. SEAOLIFF PATIENT KILLED. Per Press Association. ' DUNEDLN, Aug. 31. Mr J. R. Bartholomew, &.M., conducted an inquiry at Seacliff into the circumstances surrounding the dea>ii of a male mental patient, who died of injuries inflicted by another patient in the same ward. The evidence showed that the deceased, who had been in the institution sixteen >ears, was kicked on Sunday By another patient in the same ward,, who was pt-ri-odically violent, and deceased had died of general peritonitis, following ri pturo of the intestines. The Coroner returned a verdict in accordance v.ith the medical testimony, adding that the patient who committed the. assault could not bo deemed responsible for his actions. FIREMAN RUN OVER. WESTPORT, Aug. a J W. H. Murridge, a fireman on the s.s. Kittawa, was killed on the railway at the crane wharf last evening, through being run over while the shunting of coal was proceeding. .Deceased was single, 32 years of. age, and a native of England.