CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12461, 26 March 1906, Page 8

CASUALTIES.

THE AUCKLAND TRAMWAVffI ACCIDENT, ' tijjßb AUCKLAND, March. W& At the inquest on Tbos. Gilbert who met his death by falling , fwgflf ladder' white repairing some °7 OT ?fii tramway win*. Dr. Dudley said <Vm& there were indications that the I ?'Jj§ skull had been fractured. Hβ wfg find no marks of recent burning ;fHJP electrical tJiocke excepting a on the left wrist. Dr. Blair, roswWl physician at the Jioepital,' eaid cau.se of death was a fracture °**fii§ base of tho skull. Hβ luwl minute examination for electrical »'H3fe but did not find any recent ni«rk»-« the body. Alfred McGtiire, driWJMfe tho Tramway Company's <?morflllg| waggon, said that Uoyd, who wearing gloves, accidentally put hwfc'Mlre; hand on the trolley wire. c mediately shouted out, "It'fi got W&£& turned right around, and foil oa i[2Ss ground, a distance of 20 feet. had woni tho rubber glovee providee the company tho aocident have happened. Mickwell F. CfMfO the Tramway Compny'e engineer, that the deceased had been engag«*!R*| overhead repairing for a'year, and'**(s ordinarily a careful man. istructions had been given that wires .should not bo handled without , JftfJ , uso of rubber gloves, which were «efej plied to " emergency men," euoh ac ceased. If the gloves were at. *w,'| time reported to be defective; pair would bo at once supplied. Jb*~( was the only accident of tho had occurred on tho .Auckland The jury returned a verdict of "•**ss' dental death." ' ,*'ss (PRESS ASSOCIATION TIXEGRAM.) -.j^? AUCKLAND. .March 25^' The body of ft seaman named Lanfr{4 green ( lias been found on tho boectt.*!;j Northcote. •-'.riV' William Farquhar. 00 >' oa age, farm manager for Mis J***;, , Brookside, dropped dead on tho sjg"-,, on Saturday siftenioon, presiinwbl.v WJJj.'V heart diMW>e, The bo<Jy wa* to tlie Morgue, aud an inquttt «7--rt'; held to-day. '-CiM