ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1704, 22 March 1913, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

lORRT ACCIDENT. ( : MAN SERIOUSLY HURT. . A wharf : nnined: Tremaine, is nt present in the. J?.ublic Hospital' in a rather serious condition .as, the result of liia having been thrown off' 8 lorry" on' Thursday- • • • Particulars. o? the mishap last night . were meagre, but it seems that ,'L'romaine was riding on a New Zealand Express Company's lorry,' and that.when tlio lorry. .was.-descending,; a. hill -, at, Jlitchelt'owil.'.thb brako.,. f 'of ';.she, .vehicle' . failed "t'o.''act',' and 'a ranaway •-'occurred. At the-bottom' of ''the Hill Tremaino was jolted off the ,'striick the road with some forco. Ho was. rendered unconscious by "the' fall, afid hp was/Btill unconscious late last ! .nigW:. Another man on the lorry was totaewhat knocked about. He' woV taken to'hia'residence at Wallaceville; 1 BEMA^DED^T).KnEi);r o :,..:::':. ,: . 'An inquest '.-will bo held • this - imoniing concerning the death : of AlJjert ._ Olsen, who wa9 until recently working m a seaman on tie vessel Koko Head. Olsen, iraa arrested a few weeks ago.on.a chaige of insobriety, and when tie case was called i n Court the • polic© "/asked . that Olsen should be remanded for a week, so that' lie could ree-eivo - curative • treatment.; Tho Court thereupon remanded, Olsen, who, however, subsequently developed, pneumonia, and died in the publio hos- . pital. .. - :

. HAIRDRESSER FOUND DEAD. (By Telegraph.—Prcsa Association.) - .... Wangariiii, March 21. • w. Fred Crane,' ajed"3B, a hairdresser,-was found dead, this morning. . - ~ At tho inquest v the evidenco- disclosed that Crane's'father iheard-tho shot about' (i o'ctock this'morning; and, r on- ..going out to' ascertain the. 1 cause, - found his son lying on the ground with a- ,gun alongside him. A verdict'that. deceased shot 'himself while temßorarily.rinsane was! re-, turned. ' j',.. ' : ' LADY'S DEATH; BY DROWNING. . Napier, March 20. Word has been'- received-.that Mrs. .Manncring,' wife of-the manager of the ' NApier branch of-the Union Bank, hasbeen drowned whilst- fishing -in -the Waikato River at Taupo. The body has iiot .been recovered. No further details are available. CAUGHT-BY THE TRAIN. DunerJin, March 21. An inquest was lield concerning tho death of Robert Adair, who was" killed at Mcr-jiel yestoitlny. Tho . evidenco showed 'that deceased was driving a hor?o and trap from Dunedin to Mcsgisl,_and, when crcssin,'? Gordon. Road,, at 5.50, p. train ran inlto tho trap, , cutting, it to pieces, and throwing ,tho occupant's out, deceased receivim" such injuries that ho died soon after. Three girls.named Trcvellinn, a'ffed 9 years.) 7 years, and <t years respectively, aba received serious- -inr juries, anil were-.conveyed to tho Dunc'din Hesnilal.

•The cvidenco weii,t ilo show that tho train was travelling 1 at from 20 miles to 25 miles per hour, '.and whistled before reaching tho spot as usual. The trap was travelling at a fasit pace, and the driver, on seeing tho train-, pulled up, but was then on'the line and .too late to get clear. One of 'the girls is still unconscious. Adair wfs about 35 years .of age. and ■ was ma.rr.cd about a yeari ago. He-leaves &::widow-«nd ono child. A verdict wan'returnei'.fthat,death, was: due to injuries; received)' ..by being run over by a railway train,'.no blame being attachablo to the driver of Jtlio train. SHOOTING FATALITIES. Christchurch, March 21. Brief particulars'of a shooting fatnlitv which occurred at Hororata yesterday wore received to-day. Tho body of James Phillips, aged 65, a farmer residing In tho Coalgate district, was found with tho: top of his head hlown off by a gun-shot. Phillips was out • rabbit-shooting, and it' is assumed that ..the fatality was the ro- ' suit of an accidentA ehooting fatality occurred at liangiora last night in somewhat -unusual circumstances. John Samuel .Ingram, aged 25, an unmarried' man, returned to his father's house slightly under .the influenco of liquor. .His father remonstrated with him, and young Ingram went upstairs and got a revolver downy It is not yet quite clear-whetherhe deliberately shot himself or whether the. revolver went off by accident, but the'bullet entered his head and he died at 18.30 a.m. to-day.

STRUCK BY AN ENGINE. Christchurch, - March 21; Miss Mary Ellen Hodgeman, 20 years of age, residing at Islington, _ mot with a serious accident whilst standing on the railway station platform at Islington. By sorno means sho got too near tlio engine of nn incoming train, which struck her. Mcdicnl aid was caljpd in,' antil it was found that Miss Hedgcmnn was suffering from internal injuries and from concua6iou of tlio brain.''