ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1130, 18 May 1911, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

niS REMOVAL WAS DEMANDED. AND HE DIED EN ROUTE SOME. (By Telegraph—Press Asaociation.) Dargavllle, May 17. Fred Lekovich, nu Austrian, aged 28, a married man, expired in a trap during removal from Tckopuru Hospital to Dar> Raville yesterday under peculiar cimimstanco!?. Mβ was admitted to the hospital on Friday on tho order of his medical RilviMM, but there ho was delirious, wandered about, and is staled (o have marlo himself n nuisance to other patients. Tho hospital authorities theretore, it is said, demanded his instant removal, on the ground that he should be in a mental hospital. Yesterday two friends went down in a trap to fetch him away, but on seeing him protested against his removal on the ground that ho was in a dying condition. Tho . hospital authorities said ho was fit to travel, and insisted on his removal, with the result stated above. An inquest is being held this afternoon.

FALL OF QUARTZ AT WAIHI. Waihi, May 17. v James Samson, nered about 50 yenrsj was accidentally killed in the WaiUi mine .it' an enrlv hour this morning by the sudden clislodgnu-nt of about two tons of quartr. fnllinff on liim from the roof of a stnßc. Deceased, who leaves a widow and Rro'wu-np family, was about to giro up mining to take up farming.

OVERTURNED. Blenheim, May 17. A eiif in whieli !«"> nienheim midonta (Mr* Gosliiiß anil Mi's ltonkin) wore driving capsized near Koromiko vostonlny •ifternoW Mb. GovlijiK e«cnwl will) a. slinkinß. but Miss Rankin «a« '"111 arms broken below the elbuw.

SUDDEN DEATH. Dune.din, May 17. ,lohi, Aitken, a prpom. died while parlalsiv of ton at Millor? lint Hold last night" Death was due tb natural causre

A FALL DOWNSTAIRS. ■ Mrs. Marrfiall. 511 \m\rs of aw, rrsMinß (it'll Victoria Play-, off Ohnziipc Street, i"c"i Sown the stairs of her house yesterday, and was picked tip unconscious, and taken to the hospital. She is suffering from concussion of the brain, and a severe scalp wound.