ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2702, 23 February 1916, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

AN OLD LADY'S DELUSION. At 5.20 a.m. a lady resident of Buto Street was attracted by groans to a neighbouring house in that thoroughfare, "where she discovered an old lady named Mrs. Agnes Gordon Lyon prone upon the ground,, and evidently suffering great pain. On the arrival of tho police, Dr. Mackin was sent for, and at once ordered her removal to the Hospital. On making inquiry into tho cause of the accident, the police ascertained that she had fallen from an upstairs window. ;Tho injured woman, who is 77 years of age, had laboured under the delusion t'hat there -was a man in the passage outside her room, and in order to escape she had. tied one end of a sheet to a bed, and allowed the rest of it to hang outside, by which means she was attempting to descend to the ground, when she fell. AN EXPRESS. ACCIDENT. Whilst playing with some' newspaper boys at the corner of Taranaki and Vivian Streets yesterday, a littlo girl named Edith M'lvor, aged 7 years, residing at No. 91 Vivian Street, had tho misfortune to inn into one of Fletcher and Co.'s expresses, driven by Leslie Drinkwatei:, which was proceeding down Taranaki Street in the direction of Courtc-nny Place. Drinkwater said that he shouted out to the girl, who was running away excitedly from the boys, hut she backed into the express before he had time to pull up. Dr. Mackin was at once summoned, and found that the girl had sustained concussion of tho brain, and injuries to her left elbow and knee. The police state that 110 blame was attachablo to the driver of the express. A FARMER'S SUDDEN DEATH. By Telegraph.—Press Association. ' Wanganui, February 22. James William Fox, farmer, Rongotea, died suddenly at his residence yesterday morning. It is supposed that deceased took some liniment in mistake for a cough remedy. He was removed to the Pahiwrston Hospital, where ho died half an hour later.