ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 625, 30 September 1909, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

:^THE :HDTT. .'■■ :■} ';: '•■}'■. 'A'% verdict iof ''wound ;.whilst.jtemporarilSr.tinsano.ino'blame :heidg-at-. :;tat:heble:to anyone;.was returned: at-the in.;qtetvtin...Schiiber.'jMasfoll,'■ farmer of..Aka>tarawa;_ which, was, held af.the.Hutt oh.Tuesday/.: Evidence ;was.'called- to "jirovo .that de,'cea§e'd iiras'a single;.man,.29 years 6fage, and ; ,,carriea : :ba-.'4; poultry, farm at'■■ Akatarawa, to- ,: getber; with-two ' otnor >mea. : ' When deceased ; ■;.wasi:f6und;in, has house he was,sitting in bed yand -had, a- breach-loading gun.alongside him,- ■;; onesbarrelvbeirig discharged. 'There was a vlarg?.: wound; on the side of. the man's : head. Deceased, left, a.'.'note.vwhich.stated that" the ...deed was of- his..owh'jdoing,-and no' blame '.wha., attachableifto..ariyoiia ibnt .', He - asked;. that- any' moiiey -loft ■ after" things had . beetl settled;up,, should be forwarded to bis .-sister,.who restues at East Hyde, Essex. Ha in New Zealand. CAR FATALITY. %fi'if's. : to£Aili&»th-Vms AesictatlonJ Duncdln,''September 29. ■iAn; inquiry.into tho circumstances surround;ing van'.accident on tho Eoslyu tram lino on September i, which resulted in the death of a. child-named Wilhelmina Hendry, was ;on.clUded. to-day.;, .Tho.::drivcr and conductor of ;the:;car' which:ran;into'the -child refused to ■■ give' evidonco' when / called by tho police; Tho :. jnry.returiied.a verdict that death was: caused '■ by-'Shock.following the 1 accident and the ampu.tatton of,a:;lofri -Thojury also expressed the : opinion that the'evidonco adduced did not en•]able it to'.sayv.whother.oi'.uot thero was negli'.gence on. the "part of the officials in chanjc ? of .the,; car.;' They; further.added rider's to tho ..effect, that;' the attention of tho proper authorities-should -''be>.; called, to -the want.of to.,- life-, and 'limb' in..' existing cable \cars in, .cases of accident; and that no person 'Should, be. allowed to ,stand in'tho front'com-' ■.- partmont of. any : car,:or on tho' eutkido plat.v terms,-! or at anyrato forward'of the gripraan.