ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 14524, 28 November 1910, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Guy Compton, tho three-year-old son of Mr Thomas Oowpton, Rhodes street (says a Wellington P.A. telegram), fell' into a bath of boiling water in his patents' residence last night, and was so badly scalded tout he died in tho hospital this morning. The mother was preparing tho bath, and during- her absence the cliikl pushed open the bathroom door ;uid toppled icto the water. Tho Pea Jtille Again.—A son of Mr 11. Bennett, of Ifataura, was out shooting rabbits with a pea riflo one evening lost week, and whilst talking io a friend by the wayside tho rifle went off accidentally. The bullet peneLratc-d the young man's foot, and entered lits heel. An operation hi Goro Hos. pital failed to locate tho bullet, and the sufferer was sent to Tnverca.Tjp'll Hospital to undergo X-ray trc-alm^nt. Alexander M'Hutclieon, clerk of tljo Castlepoint County Council, was driving to Mastorton fronn Tcnui, when the horses bolted, and lie was thrown out and dragged a number uf. yards. His skull was fractured and his nek broken through striking » culvert.. The *}■'■ ceased, who was seventy yeai-s old. leaves an adopted daughter. He was a widower. Patrick M'ftinn, whose relatives aro nr.dcrstood to reside in Christchurch, was run over by a train between Koputaroa and Sliannon, oil tho Manuwatu line, on Friday night. He was 1 taken to the Otaki Hospital,, where, both logs were amputated. Ho died at 4.30 on Saturday morning. Louis H. Sanderson, of Wellington, fractured his stall as the result of a bicycle accident at Newtown. Ho was unconscious tor some time, but is now getting on well. A fourteen-year-old boy named HerbertHolmes was picked up this morning in Tailored street in an unconscious condition (say?. an Ashburton P.A. wire). He had been sent to bring a horse from a paddock sow* distance away, and it is supposed that he attempted to rido the animal bad:, nr.d was thrown off. He sustained a compound fracture of the skull, end is in a critical condition. Miss Louisa Adams, a paticut in the-Wel-lington Hospital since October 18 last, died m that institution to-day while under an anesthetic for on operation..—Wellington