CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16884, 12 July 1920, Page 6

CASUALTIES.

On Saturday morning Thomas Gant, a resident of Woolston, while walking along the° railway crossing at Lin wood, was knocked down by a railway engine. He suffered a fracture of the skull and was badly bruised. He was conveyed to tho Christchureh Hospital. Last night ho was reported to be slightly improved in condition. (PKESS ASSOCIATION TKLEGBAMS.) AUCKLAND, July 11. * A man named George Mirfin, aged 68 a resident of Ponsonby, was knocked down by a bicyclo last night, and died in the hospital from concussion and shock. HAMILTON, July 10. Tho inquest on Maria Turner, an elderly woman, who was knocked down a fortnight ago by a motor-car, driven by John Campbell Johnston, and who died within an hour, was concluded today. The Coroner found that the deceased died of injuries accidentally received, by being knocked down by a motor-car. He added that the evidence showed want of care on tho part of Johnstone, and that, the matter was one for the consideration of the police. CAMBRIDGE, July 10. Henry Smith Walker, aged 47 years, committed suicide in the police cells by hanging himself with a strip torn from bis blanket. lie had been arrested on the previous evening while drunk, through drinking methylated spirits.