ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17037, 10 May 1923, Page 10

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

STRUCK BY FALLING BRICK. "While working at the buildings of Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Cathedral Square, this afternoon, James Taylor, a married man. residing at Phillips Street, Linwood, was struck on the head by a falling brick. After being treated at the outpatients’ department of the Hospital he was able to proceed to his home. FOUND DEAD. DUNEDIN. May 9. Albert James Goding, forty-three years of age. living with his wife and four children at 86. Dundas Street, iv as found, dead in' the kitchen at his home at 6.30 this morning. Ellen Goding, wife of the deceased, ■deposed at the inquest that he had been wonwing about a divorce case in which he was co-respondent and. had made some remarks about doing away with himself. "Witness saw deceased for the last- time about seven o’clock yesterday, and. going int-o the kitchen this morning, she found him lying on the floor with the gas tube in his mouth and a coat over his head. The gas was turned on and life was extinct. Witness was going to commence divorce proceedings against Goding after his own case was over. Elizabeth Jane Stewart said she had known deceased for the last six years ! and saw him at her borne in Grange ! Street last night. He seemed worried over a divorce case which was pending, filer husband was taking proceedings i ’• which deceased was co-respondent. Deceased said he would see witness again. Witness was living apart from her husband. The coroner returned a verdict of suicide by coal gas poisoning.