ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.

Evening Star, Issue 14004, 10 March 1909, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.

A YOUNG MAN'S DEATH. Stephen Wood, twenty-eight years of age, who resided with his father, Mr J.imes Wood, of Pin© Hill, farmer, was killed on the road near the Paper-mill. Woodhaugh, between eight and nine o'clock last night. The fatality was the result of i fall or a throw from a horse. The young man wan seen riding homeward at a fast pace, and it, is conjectured that when rounding a, bend of the road he was either thrown from his horse, which might have stumbled, or lost his balance and fell otf. Tho horse's knees and legs are marked with bruises, which suggests that the animal stumbled. Tho rider must have fallen very heavily, ad death took him rapidly. He was dead when found. An ambulance was procured hurriedly, and the body conveyed to town, whero Di- Fulton immediately pronounced life to be extinct. Jt is concluded that the. young man's neck was broken by the fall. Tho body was Uaken to tho morgue, where an inquest will be held to-morrow morning, at ten o'clock, hv th<? coroner without a jury. The deceased was employee! by Ximmo and Blair as a clerk. He was respected by all who knew him, and was well-known as a yachtsman. He was a nephew of the late Mr William Wood, proprietor of Wood's Hotel. Wm. M'Gonigle, railway porter, who was injured at Marlon on Saturday night, died at the hospital last evening. Deceased was fifty-three years of age, a native of Londonderry, Ireland, had been in the colony thirty-seven years, and was a married man with one son.—Palmerskm North wire. Fred Hudson, a plumber, fell from the roof of a house in Walker street yesterday afternoon to the ground—somo 17ft of a fall. He was stunned, and removed to the hospital, where he is now doinc; well. It is not considered that his injuries are serious. Arthur Wheeler, of Caversham, had tho toes of one of hi 3 feet badly bruised yesterday by the wheel of a dray laden with bags of chaff. One of the bags fell off the dray, and when Wheeler was in the act 01* replacing it the horse moved forward, with the result that the wheel passed over Wheeler's toea. A youth named Von Keysenberg was admitted to Wellington Hospital on Sunday suffering from a wound in the throat caused by a pea rifle exploding while out rabbitshooting. The boy died, the windpipe having been cut. The father is at present in the hospital, and the mother dietf recently. At the inquest the deceased's brother said he and the deceased and two others were out camping. The deceased's toat caught on the trigger of his riflo, and while witiiees wm endeavoring to release it the ritle went off, the deceased being shot in the ■windpipe. A verdict of "Accidental death" wa» returned, the coroner, Dr M'Arthur, S.M.. adding a rider that he could net fcxpress too strongly his difiapproval of lads who had no knowledgo taking out guns.