ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.
Dan Barnett, a son of Air George Barnett, of Queenstown, was drowned in a lagoon at Glenorchy. The cl creased was subject to fits. There was ociy about 3ft of water in the lagoon. (Barnett some years ago was successful us a jockey at the goldfields race meetings. At the inquest at Christchurch on the body of Harold Alelville Stevenson, whose body was found in the river yesterday morning, it was stated that there was a gunshot wound in the left temple. A verdict was returned of " Death from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.” James AlacArtncy (52), a stonemason, was found dead in his lodgings at Wellington. Heart disease is believed to be the cause of death. At the inquest on the body of John Cummings, a platelayer, who was killed on the railway near Petone on Saturday, the coroner found that death was brought about by the deceased himself, who for some reason of his own had crossed the line without being aware of the train approaching, and that lie was run into accidentally when he was in such a position that neither the driver nor the fireman could see him. No blame whatever was attachable to them. Word has just been received at Taihape that Air Joseph Gibson. J.P., a highlyrespected ironmonger at Raetahi, was killed this morning by an explosion of gelignite.—P.A. telegram. An Oamaru message states that a painful accident happened to a railway shunter, H. S. Hungerford. this morning un the Holmes wh„rf. Me was riding or. th cowcatcher of a shunting engine, when by some means his foot slipped, and he vas dragged under the engine, sustaining a fracture of the left leg and a severe flesh wound nu the right Teg. Prompt uppii--1 cation of the Westinghouso br,i*;e f rcj vented a more distressing accident.
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Evening Star, Issue 14116, 20 July 1909, Page 5
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