FATAL ACCIDENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 3, 5 January 1922, Page 4

FATAL ACCIDENTS.

•— ~ A GIRL DROWNED. iRy Telef-raph.—rress Association.! OAMARU. Wednesday. A drowning accident occurred in the Waitaki River ;ut live o'clock this afternoon near Georgetown, eighteen miles from Oamaru. in which Mary Elizabeth '■ Dromgoole, the fourteen-year-old dauwli- i ter of a farmer living in the vicinity lost I her life. j Three girls were bathing iv the Wui- I tuki and one got into difficulties. Another girl went to her assistance but failed to reach her and only just managed to reach the river bank herself. The girl Dromgoole sank, but although the body was recovered within three minutes, artificial respiration, which was carried out for over an hour, wa* unsuccessful. A SETTLER KILLED. NBW PLYMOUTH. Wednesday. ' A well-known settler of the t'ruti district. Mr. Charles Thompson, lost his life to-day through a horse falling upon him. The deceased was a married man. INQUEST AT AVHAXGARET. (By Telegraph.—Own CorreKiWudouit.) WHANOAREI. Wednesday. An adjourned inc|ucst was held al YVhangarei Gourthouse to-day before Mr. G. H. ( hissell (acling-coroncr) and a jury into circumstances attending .the death of Arthur ('adman, who was killed at Ramo on December 22 last through falling down n disused shaft. Evidence was given :>nat deceased, who was deaf and dumb, and formerly an inmate of Sumner Deaf and Dumb Institute, left Mr. R. Henderson's house to cut gorsc. He was s"ilbspr]ucntly missed, and search resulted in his body being found feet upward in about six feet of water at the bottom of a shaft which was about forty feet deep. It was stated that the mine shaft was properly protected with a four-wire fenco and four post.-, and deceased must have known of its existence. Dr. Ward, who examined the body, expressed the opinion that death was due to drowning while deceased was stunned. A verdict was returned that deceased met his death accidentally by falling down a disused coal mine shaft ait Kaaio on December 22, 1021, being drowned while in an unconscious condition; that no blame was attachable to anybody. The jury added a rider that such shafta j should be filled in.