FATAL ACCIDENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 70, 23 March 1914, Page 6

FATAL ACCIDENTS.

FALL FROM A CLIFF. MAX KILLED AT HOBSON* BAY. Falling a height of 30 feet from the cliffs at Hobson Bay, a middle-aged man named Stuart Lyell. w_3 killed on Saturday afternoon, his body being discovered lying on the rocks with his face and head badly battered and cut. By his side was found a bottle containing whisky. ] The belief of the poT.ci- that Lyell |'I bn4 been sitting, or perhaps walking on the top of the cliff and thai he had been ' drinking some whisky. On I lie arrival ' of the police on the scene, the bottle ' was found still to contain some liquor, the cork hating been removed. A fewfeet away from the hotly was some soft '1 sand on which the -ho-lllc fell ivhi<-V. I '

sand on which the -bo-itle fell, which I explained «hv the bottle was not' broken. The dUcoverv of the ho.iv was. j made by ~__r a. A. Mu.a. . and 1". Way | month, who were watting bet we-n the cliff and top Orak.i Inn:. . "i.irv im- ' medi.ueli t-l'-phoned 1 r. t' - »••> [> rside police, and (,-instiMii, l-.i K ie .:id \t kin.son prt.ppeu. ,: lothe_p..t ,11 a la'ine.a. i Early yesterday morning Sergeant! Cowan ami Constable Tolling visited the! scene and made an exhaustive examination of the rocks and ihe cliffs above, the rfsult being that Hi., found footsteps on the ■■■2c of C:e ■ |i„ am l , ;t her in- 1 dicaHon.. 1.1 ihe nun i.ning fallen. It was not until th_ t morning tint the man's identity was revealed. Mr Pearson, caretaker of 3 lrral cricket ground viewing the bodi and identifying it. A CARPENTER KILLED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association ) IXVERCARCJILL, Sunday. A <_rpenter named Alfred Michael Barman, a single man. aged 28 years, fell from the roof of the new goods shed yesterday. He dropped 25 feet through the skylight, broke his leg and arm. and sustained severe injuries to tbe skull. He was removed to the hospital, but he ■ never regained consciousness, and he died 1 last night. WANGANUI BOY _____!___>.

W.__.GAXUT, Sunday. A six-year-old boy, named Leslie Gosncll. was run over by a motor-cycle ve_terday afternoon. He died in the hospital this morning. A FATAL FAtt. WELLINGTON. Sunday. A middle-aged man. named William H. Geary, who was employed as a wharf labourer, died at the hospital to-day a_ the result of injuries received yesterday week. While in tbe act of climbing into an express in the street he slipped and fell on his head, sustaining concussion of the brain.