OTAHUHU ACCIDENT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 127, 29 May 1914, Page 2

OTAHUHU ACCIDENT.

DEATH OF THE CHILD. COROXER'S INQUEST.

linjrprinp for two days in a state of almost ponstant agony, with both of her feet cut off as n. re?ult of bring run over liy a train, the little Rirl Dorothy Thelma AukeU. klhi w.i* injur'-d on thnersuiion of her jrrnn.lmother tieinff killed at Ota-huliu on \Vn<hift«lay pa--r<l an-:iy at the hncpital this morninir. 111-CJ-ased had l«-en in an extn-Tnely weak condition ever .--inee lipt admit tanep to the hospital, and from the tir-t it was j.i-11 (.hat there was little possibility of t,h<- child's reeoverinp. The end ..-aiiip after a period of ophsolpss watehinfr and nttent ion l.y the doctors and nurses, aad .-ad tli.iugli the final calamity has been. ii i, LTiiernlly eonsidpred that deatih has ecmir- as it merciful relief to the sufferer, who had she livei!. would liave hern a eripplp IT life. KVIDKNCM-: AT TIIK IKQX'EPT. The adj r 'iinie,l inquiry converninpr the (hath of Mury Aquillu. Aukett was rr -limed 'before thp Coroner (Mr X V. KraaiT. S.M i t.vday. and an ino.aest mi th,' body of the child Dorothy Thelma AiKkett. who tlicd early this morning.! was cummerK'pd. Dr. Maguire. medical puperintendpjit nf the Auckland Hospital, stated that the dej-eui<ed <liild wafi admitted to the Hospital at about 7 p.m. on Wednesday. She was sntr«rin-r from severe siioek. war. vitv blant'lieil in ajipearanre (due to the ]~-« of a coneidpTatilo amount of blood], and. on examination, was tounu to have ln-t botii feet, whiih had been sPTt-red tvo inelira abovv; i" pa.- ; i ra-.e. She died at 4.1" a.m. tn-Uay. The <-ause of death wa« traumati.' amputation o! the feet, hemorrhap-. and shorJ*. (him. Henry Aukett. railway porter. of Ota'iulii]. depiiseij Uiat the decea/ved « r as lii< cliild. Hit ace was two years and nine months Dr. -Mag-jin- stated that, the l»dy of Che dm , eased woman was liroujrht to the Hospital at about 7.15 p.m. on Wwiiiesday. There wiui a fracture of the right arm. and the left thijrh showed -very severe whii-h had torn all the prinoijcil vpKB.-1.-i. anl Kplintered the thijrh bone. The riplit leg bone had euetained a compound fractirre. and therp wan bruising about, the face. Hcmorrha.ire from thp main vphsp's r>f the Wii.s tin; caii-o of death, which hud incurred within an hour of the examination at the Hospital. Ulien the inquoct «a< resumed thi« jfternuon. ifr J-'. K. Shearer appeared to watch the on behalf of the lliiihvay J»epartmeiit. 1 ,, ! -'Ik. Clias. Dcnz. railway clerk <,f Ot.-il.nh,,. said he was on duty at :,.M p.m. ■ i Wednesday, when the northbound .Inn 'i'nink train arrived. Witness jw\c I he signal for the train t<l [iroceed after '"Vinff waJkPd aJonjr thp platform to μ-c ' it. the r-arria ? e ? atcn were shut ami no ,„, • was pottin« oft or on thf train. 11,- wan watching the train move oir when he heard ,i serenm. and on turniiiK round lip saw a dark object which ,-ippea.red iike a man uttenipting to board the train. The fa.4. of the object disappearing between the cars he took to be due to the i-cr-on ha.vinjr boarded the carriasre plutforni. Fie was nmning along the platform when the train stopped, and he saw the l.odic> of a. woman ami a child on th.- line between the rails. The former appeared to !»• badly injuVd. nn,l someone picked up iln> child. Witness ru-he,l to t| lt - telephone to rin;i up the doctor, and r.iuml the p,irti-r in the act of doiriL' >o. \\ itncss ran along the train inqnirint.' for a medical man, and subsequently sent to hi- hfiiisp for a streti-her. To Hip police: The only c-ondui-ion hp could draw -.i.is that the woman muft have <ivprl(vik<il .the. fact that tOie -had arriw.l at Ohihu'm anl attempted In leave the train alter il hail started. She had the lia.br in her artnts an., rniiß't a'rvo iiave bi-.-n .-.irrying :i dres»-ba=.ket. anj a smaller iia-kpt. whii-!i wen- Mib,-niuo7i:ly found r-i-ir b>. To Mr. S,carer: Tier just .-.illed nut. the n.um- of the station after the train had .-ouie ah>np*ide the phi: form. ][~ was iVii-.-iiin? the (rain riyhr. t:,ron K h. an I their «;ih in. reason wliT he should temptin,: |.i p-t f>(T thp train. Tiie in.p.iry pr,.-.-p,lin- when the ■S:ar" w.-ni to ;.rei-s.