CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13362, 2 March 1909, Page 8

CASUALTIES.

INQUEST. An inquest was held at the Hospital yesterday by Mr H. \Y. Bishop, District. Coroner, concorniin; tho death of James .Moran, as the result ol injuries received through falling off an excursion train from Little Kiver on Saturday. Tlie evidence showed that Moran was returning from tho Kaiapoi Woollen Company's picnic, and was walking through tho carriages and milking himself v nuisance. The door was locked when he went out on to the platform, and he climbed over the roof to the other end of tho carriage. He got his hands blackened, during his journey, and these, he put on a young lady's face. When he left the carriage agaia the door was locked, and Moran commenced to return to the platform ho originally loft by climbing along tho roof. Ill's foot slipped, and he fell on to a cattle stop, and when picked up he was unconscious, being removed to tho Christchurch Hospital, where i'o died on Sunday morning. One of tho witnesses said thnt Moran was not drunk, though ho seemed ''a bit blurrrd.' , A. verdict was returned , that death was duo to injuries received through falling off a railway carriage while climbing along the roof.

Tho nine-yenr-old son of "Mrs Sbarman while spending a. holiday at Mothven. fell from a gate on Thursday last and broke his arm.

(press association telegrams.) AUCKLAND. February 28. James Butler, 41 single man. aged 23, was drowned at Devonport sliortly boforo 1 o'clock yesterday. Butler, who was employed l by the Devonport Borough Council., arrived home shortly after midday and went out immediately for a bathe on the beach. At about five minutes to one two men who were bathing near by saw Butlor coming ashore calling out as he did , so. They swam out towards him. but ho sank before -they could reach .hum, and some ten minutes elapsed before tho body was recovered. Dr. Atkinson endeavoured to i.nduce artificial respiration for about forty minutes, but without success. Deceased was a son of tho manager of the Central mino at Broken Hill AUCKLAND, March 1. Percy Bennet, 17 years of age., was primming off Chelsea on Saturday, when hf> was seen by his companions to throw up his arms and sink. _ Bennet was a strong swimmer, and is supposed to have been roijkxl by cramp. BLTHAM, March 1. John Jones, about 45 years, a labourer employed at Matapu, was returning home from Eltham on Saturday night when he was thrown from Bis horse and killed.