CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16847, 29 May 1920, Page 9

CASUALTIES.

A fatal accident occurred at the Sunnysidc Mental Hospital yesterday • morning, when a man named WiLiiam Emmett, 74 years of age, who had "been an inmate of the institution for a number of years, was tlirown from a ' dray and killed. Ho was engaged in liis usual occupation of carting potatoes, and as ho was passing tiirough a gate his dray bumped one of the posts, with the result that he was thrown out and broke his neck. An inquest, was held later in the day before the Coroner, Mr S. E. McCarthy, and a jury of six, a verdict of accidental death being retyxne'i. A young man named Percy Hooker, a Christcj;urch resident, but, living at present' in Dixon street, Wellington, was caught in between t-vo cars crossing each other in Manners street, Wellington, on Thursday afternoon «nd seriously injured about the head. JS'o one appears to have actually witnessed the accident, but Hooker was seen lying on the road unconscious when tho trams had passed. Ho recovered consciousness shortly beforo being taken to the hospital.