ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 162, 2 April 1908, Page 10

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

' CRUSHED BY A BOULDER. (by telegraph—press association.) . ' . Christchuroh, April 1. A sad accident occurred at Lo Bon's Bay on Sunday morning. Mr. Donald M'Kay and his son, Albert Donald, a boy nearly seven years of age, were in a paddock, when the boy attempted to climb over some rocks, and a largo boulder gave way arid rolled on to , tho boy, pinning him to the ground. With difficulty, his father and Mr. Thomas Mould, a . neighbour, released the boy, who was at once taken to Akaroa Hospital. His injuries were found to he' severe, and ha . died'early on Monday morning. An inquest w,as held in tlie afternoon, bo- , fore Mr. G. Acting-Coroner, and a verdict of accidental death was' returned. - THE CHRISTCHURCH TRAM ACCIDENT. Christchuroh, April 1. Tho circumstances' .surrounding tlie death,, of Sidney Cadle, stock auctioneer for Dalgety and Co., who' succumbed to injuries received . by being run over by a'tramway"locomotive last night, were investigated at, an inquest ■ this afternoon. : William Dick, tram inspec- : tor, stated that he saw deceased run in front , . of an approaching about ten .yards away. He shouted,/but deceased did not ap- . pear to takei any .notice;; ; Other witnessessaid deceased, /when crossing, seemed to ■ • . change -his mind, and hesitate; He was knocked down, the tram pulling up at the time.' A verdict of accidental' death was returned. ' : ... 1 RUN OVER BY A GIG. . Christchuroh, April 1.-, • An inquest' was held; to-day touching the death of John Templeton; killed by being run'-' orerVby a' gig on Oxford Tt-rrace' oa . Monday. Contradictory evidence was given relative ;tothe position .of • the gig .at. the" , time of'the accident. : A verdict was re- ■ turned that Templeton met his death by, in* . juries,.' the result of ..being'; run cyor-by .. gig, driven on the -wrong side of the road." A' rider was added that Whitbroclc, ■ the driven of the gig, when in, that position, did all h< could to ,avertl-ari accident. ; | ; .FATAL GUN ACCIDENT. . . '• -• • j ■ ... lAucKland, April 1. ■ i A fifteen-year-old: ' boy. . named . Thomas : 1 Humphries, an inmate of tho Children's - 1 Home, Remuera, was shot xms aix-erncou uy 1 tho dischargo of a gun, death being .itistan- : taneous. It 'appears that some boys found .', • [ the gun in the stable, and after .handling it. ! placed against the ; wall,' from where it Jell,. i going off, when it struck the ground, Hum-, r phrics receiving'the discharge in the side or . s- tie head. The boy.!had been in .the Homo, , 1 fivp years,\ and' his father . resides .in the - King Country. 1 ... .■ A; FATAL 'FR6M A -HORSE.' ,' ', '- v ' v : \ : Gore, April-1. . ' 'John "Burke; a'farmer, residing at . wera, iiea*r Gore, met with a fatal accident ® at Gore this evening. When riding over an , „ asphalt footpath, , his 'horse slipped and fell, 0 throwing Burke to the ground \with con--1 siderable violence. He \yas picked up unf conscious, his skull being fractured, and ho j died in, a f?w; hours..,, He,;\vfas a'u.'old resident '. 5 of' the' district,;; !; ' SKELETON- FO.UND, AT IIATAROA.. ' ; Taihape, March 31. ' Human bones 'have "been discovered at j- Mataroa in a patch of burnt scrub. ' ?■ •; tiniroto; drowning fatality. I ;' r, ; . Cisborne, April 1. 1 The body of Thomas Rodgers, who lost f his life recciitly by -drowning, near; Tiniroto, 1 has been recovered by some (Maoris near lo , Remga .Falls, and is .being carried , about twelve miles to, Tiniroto, where an inquest ... is to be held. / v .„ '