ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9912, 29 July 1910, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

SOUTHLAND TKAttJbJDIBS. [P.KII rMt-Ks'S ASSOCIATION.] LNVEfcOAHGILL, .July 29. Lawrence horde, ji farmer of C» roper's Bush, was found dead in a paddoak. A bottle, of strychnine wus discovered iti his pocket. John .Hunter, a lerrynmn, oh" Tiverton, who had been suffering from mental derangement, strangled himself in. the hospital early this .niorninj. l ;.

[From Ouu Corresi'O.voknt.j ASHBURTON, -inly 29. An inquest was held to-day." before Mr V. G. Day, Coroner, touching the death of Daisy Isabella Hampton, six years of ago, who died in the hospital as a result of burns received on the previous day. After hearing the evidence of the mother of the deceased, James Parky. Marian Houlston, I)r Handcock and Dr Hunter, the Coroner brought in a verdict that death was caused bv shock resulting from burns accidentally received.

[Pee. Press Association.'! WELLINGTON, July i ! 9

Andrew Riddle, aged forty-eight-, and a married man, died at the hospital this morning v'r.om injuries sustained through a fall in Dimeck's bacon factory, Ngahauranga. The- deceased slipped while oiling an overhead shaft and fell head downwards on a concrete floor 3 fracturing his skull und breaking' -.in arm and several ribs.

This morning Miss Eveline May Creamer, seventeen years of ago, who had been ailing for four days, died rather suddenly at her parents' residence, East lilyreton. '.'.he Coroner lias not yet decided whether un inquest will In- necessary.