ACCIDENTS & DEATHS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 42, 29 November 1937, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & DEATHS.

OLD LADY’S FATAL FALL. (Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, This Day. Mrs Emma Borland, aged 83, living at Caversham, fell from a second storey window yesterday, and was admitted to the hospital at 10.45 o’clock, suffering from a fractured left leg and fractured jaw. She died at 4 p.m. DROWNED FROM A LAUNCH. FOXTON, November 27. Held at the instruction of the Solici-tor-General, an inquest into the circumstances of the death of Wilson Angus. McPhail, who fell overboard from the fishing launch Madge on September 1 and whose body has not yet been recovered, was conducted before Mr G. D. Hamilton, Coroner, to-day. The evidence showed that McPhail was feeling unwell, and must have tripped or fallen overboard after the vessel was moored. He was alone on deck at the time. He was one-armed. A lad, Alan Sim, made a gallant attempt at a rescue, and was commended by the Coroner for his action. A verdict that McPhail met his death by drowning was returned. CYCLIST FATALLY INJURED. WELLINGTON, November 28. Fatal injuries were received by the rider of a. motor-cycle, Mr Robert Harvey Durrant, aged 26, a salesman, in a collision with a motor-car in Broadway, Miramar, at 1.45 p.m. on Saturday. A brother, Mr Carrol Ronald Durrant, aged 22, a compositor in the Government Printing Office, who was on the pillion, suffered a slight injury to the left ankle.