INQUESTS COMPLETED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 135, 9 June 1936, Page 5

INQUESTS COMPLETED.

MACHINIST FATALLY HTTOT,

The inquest touching the death in the Auckland Hospital on May 10 of Alexander McLeod O'Brien, aged 41, married, a machinist employed at the Otahuhu Railway Workshops, was concluded by Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., yesterday afternoon. After hearing the evidence of the inspector of machinery and several of the workshop employees, the coroner returned a verdict that death was the result- of a ruptured intestine, caused by a piece of wood which accidentally fell on a circular saw and was thrown back on O'Brien while he was working the saw on May 9. Mr. R. Meredith appeared for the Railway Department and Mr. D. Johnson for the relatives of deceased and-the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants.

STRUCK BY TRAM CAR. A finding that John Willis Robinson, aged 84, of King Street, Glenmore, died at the Auckland Hospital on May 24 from injuries to tlie head sustained when he was accidentally knocked down by a tramcar in Eden Terrace on the evening of May 22, was returned yesterday afternoon by the coroner, Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M. The coroner observed that it seemed clear that no person other than Robinson was to blame for the accident. He was a very old man and had a bad le<* and slightly defective eyesight, and when he found himself between two tramcars travelling in opposite directions he apparently became flurried, stepped forward and got hit by one of the trams. The trams seemed to have been driven in a reasonably cautious manner.