ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 154, 27 December 1912, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

(by tilegbafk— -press association.) AUCKLAND, 26th Decembei. A waterside Worker named Robert Johnson sustained injuries to his ribs, also a split knee, when rescuing a girl who fell off the-Devonport ferry wnerf to-day, in the holiday rush. The girl missed her footing and fell into' the 'har* bour. Johnson dived in, and with the assistance of another man, brought her to safety. In doing so he must have collided with a pile supporting the wharf. A boy named Michael Casey was crushed between' two trucks while playing with some companions to-day. One leg was badly crushed, and one rib broken. His condition is critical. TIMARTJ, 26th December. A motor accident occurred to-night, a young woman named. Crisp being taken to the hospital suffering from shock. It appears that a young man without authority asked three domestics at Worry's Hotel to have a ride in a car which the owner had left standing outside the hotel. The party had gone about a mile, and the car was rounding a bay on the main road when ib capsized. The young man has not been seen since, and it is rumoured that he bolted in "distress over tho accident and threw himself into the sea. It is understood that none of the girls Was seriously hurt. DUNEDIN, 26th December. The body of a man was found in the bush near the' northern cemetery this morning. It was in a decomposed state, and it was practically impossible to identify it. Lying alongside was a rifle which hud a discharged cartridge in the barrel. There is no clue- to the identity of the dteeeasetl. GISBORNE, 2nd December. ! Oeorge Campbell, a young man about j 26 years of age, was riding the horse i Mfnnehftha.iu the leaping match at the yserangaehika sports to-day when the torse /aught in the top rail and fell, ! throwing the rider, who was seriously inj iftred by contact with its hooft. Campbefl wa» brought into town, and is at present in a precarious condition.