AN AMERICAN’S DEATH.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3767, 28 February 1913, Page 5

AN AMERICAN’S DEATH.

DUNEDIN, Feb. 27. A post mortem examination of the body of George Crocker Smith, about /0 years of age. who was found dead in lied at the Grand Hotel, disclosed extensive heart disease. Death was attributed to either cardiac failure or angina pectoris. At the inquest a verdict to this effect was returned. Deceased represented Wiley and Ruseell, a manufacturing company of Massachusetts, America.

CLAIM FOR DAMAGES. INVERCARGILL, Feb. 27. The Supreme Court has been engaged for two days in hearing the ease Wm. Taylor v. Campbell Bros., a claim for. £SOO damages for the death of plaintiff’s son, who was employed by defendants at Wyndham. The defendants had sent the boy with a horse and dray to cart a. can of water from the Mataura River. The hoy got imo difficulties, and the result was that he was drowned, and the horse and dray washed down stream. Plaintiff claimed that defendants had acted negligently in sending the boy to perform such work in view of the dangerous condition of the stream. The defence was that there had been no negligence, and that the occurrence was an accident which could not have been foreseen by an ordinary careful hum. The jury found for defendants with costs. ALLEGED THEFT OF MAIL BAG. BLENHEIM, Feb. 27. At the Supreme Court John Francis O’Keffe was charged with the theft of a mail hag from the Molesworth coach. The jury returned a verdict that the evidence was not sufficient to return a verdict of guilty, and prisoner was discharged.