ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 86, 8 October 1914, Page 2

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

(»T TELEGRAPH— PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, 7th October. No evidence was forthcoming to show bow Alice Ward, aged 32, also known as Lindropp, got into the harbour when the Coroner's enquiry into the circumstances of her death was commenced at the morgue this morning. Yesterday morning the body of the woman was found floating near the Kelson-street wharf, fully clad, and clasping in her hand a small sum of money. When the inquest opened th\s morning, a woman named O'Brien, living in a lane off Nelson-street, stated th.nt she had known the deceased for nearly two years, by the name of Lindropp. Some twelve months ago she was living near witness, but latterly her movements had been uncertain. Witness thought that* she was married. She was rather addicted to drinking whisky. The police are making enquiries into the case, owing to one or two suspicious circumstances connected with it. An. examination ot the body revealed no external marks of violence, although on the wrist of the hand in wliicli the money was clasped there were found slight marks, winch might be consistent with the wrist having been grasped by an assailant. Deceased was known to the police, and it is stated that she had friends on the scows berthed at the waterfront, and was in the habit of visiting them. There were signs of alcohol having been taken. AUCKLAND, This Day. The body of 13. T. Young, aged twenty-four years, the eldest son of W. Young, tailor, o» Auckland, was found drowned in a culvert near Tokaoka. The evidence "at the inquest indicated that he was riding o horse, which became unmanageable while he was crossing the stream, and gox, caught in the culvert beneath the voad. PAHIATUA, 7th October. An accident happened in Pahiatua this morning, when a lad named Horace Falloon, son of Mrs. Falloon, of Pahiatua, received a severe shaking, some body bruises, and a scalp wound, as a result of being dragged along portion of Mangahao-road and part of Main-street by a pony. The lad's foot got hung up in the stirrup of the saddle. When the pony was brought to a standstill in Main-street by an onlooker it was expected that the -boy would be badly injured, but medical attention disclosed the fact that no bones were broken. Young Falloon was unfortunate in fracturing one of his legs some months back by a fall from a pony. HOKITIKA, 7th October. A highly-respected South Westknd settler named Frederick Chinn^ aged 41, was crossing the Pukekura River with a load of timber on a dray, when the vehicle overturned in the stream, pinning Chirm beneath. Deceased was a married man, with three children. INVEROARGILL, 7th October. This evening the body of a man was found in the estuary, badly decomposed. It has been identified as that of Mar tell John Cockburn, who has been missing since 16th September. *