ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9330, 3 February 1896, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

. — » —• An elderly man, named Henry Thomas Jones, was being taken from Lyttelton to ' the Christchuroh Hospital by the 8 p.m. train on Saturday, and when on tho platform was seized with faintness, and expired lin a few minutes. Deceased, who was about sixty years of age, was eight or nine years ago caretaker at Ripon Island and well known in Lyttelton. After leaving 1 his employment on the island he went to ' England, returning in the louie in November [ last. For some time he had been staying in Lyttelton, and took up his residence at the Royal Hotel. He was evidently ; in a very weak state of health, and though ! every attention was paid him, gradu_lly ; got worse. Though constantly urged te [ see a doctor, he persistently refused to do ao. Ou Saturday morning he appeared so ' weak that Dr. Guthrie was called iv. ' Deceased at first refused to see him, but eventually allowed himself to be examined. Dr. Guthrie at once advised his removal to the Hospital. Au inquest was held ou on the body at the Mitre Hotel yeac terday morning, before R. Beetham, Esq., Corouer, and a jury of six, of whom Mr A. B. McCready was foreman. The facts elicited were similar to those stated above, r with the addition that deceased was a temperate man, who drank no spirits. The 8 evidence of Dr. Guthrie, who performed ■ the post mortem examination, was to tbe effect that the heart was very weak, there was old standing disease of the liver, very deep inflammation of both lungs, particularly the left, and considerable adhesion to the chest wall from old pleurisy. There were no signs of drink in the stomach. The death was ascribed to failure of the heart's action, accelerated by inflammation of the 8 lungs. A verdict was returned iv accordance with the medical testimony. Deceased leaves a brother and two sisters residing iv 3 Hobart. S (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.) » WELLINGTON, February 1. c Mr Mowatt, Inspector of Machinery, £ died suddenly of heart disease. He went to j * bed as usual, apparently well, and was | ** found dead about midnight. He was r forty-two years of age and leaves a wife and '» family. r DUNEDIN, February 1. 8 A man named John Erskine died suddenly '• at Tapanui last night.* Ho had been drink-, j: ing heavily before going to Tapanui but not j * since. The cause of death was inflammation | c of the bowels. a February 2. A shocking tram accident occurred last ': evening, by which a countryman named d William Martin lost his life in Princes 8 street. He was proceeding up Princes 8 street incline, which the traincar takes at a V hand gallop. As usual, there were four -* horses abreast in the car, and as the j S hoarding in front of the new Government c Insurance Buildings drives people into the * street, the railed pathway left being quite inadequate, the place is very dangerous. Martin, r was knocked down by ono of tbe horses and v disappeared under the tram car. Before it could be pulled up the front wheels passed over the man, terribly mutilating his face and legs. He was breathing when the car was lifted off, but died a few minutes later. '" Martin is a married man and lived at Fairn field, near Green Island. a