ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 15139, 22 March 1913, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

The body of James Phillips was.found at Hororaia, (Canterbury). Jiis head was blown off. Ho was out rabbit shooting, and his death is belioved to be accidental. He was a farmer at Coalgate, and was 65 years of age. A shooting fatality occurred at Rangiora on Thursday under somewhat unusual circunistanoes. John Samuel Ingram, 25 years of age, unmarried, returned to his father's house slightly under the influence of liquor. His father remonstrated with him, and young Ingram went upstairs and got a revolver and came down again. It is not yet quite clear whether he deliberately shot himself or whether the revolver went off -by accident, but the bullet entered his head, and he dial vesterday. Miss Mary Ellen Hedgeman. 20 years of age, residing at Islington, met "with a senons accident whilst standing on the railway station platform at Islington. By some means .she got too near the engine of an incoming train, which struck her. Medical aid was called in, and it was found thai Miss Hedgeman was suffering from internal injuries and from concussion of the* brain. On Thursday .night a motor cycle ridden by Andrew Clouston, wharf laborer, collided with a hansom cab on Jervois quay, Wellington. Clouston had his wife and child in the side car attached to'tho cvcle. Clouston had his nose broken and "faco cut. Mrs Clouston was severejy shaken, but the child was uninjured. While training a horse on the Metropolitan Trotting Grounds at Christchuxch. on Wednesday morning, Robert Kcav, the well-known trainer of trotting hoi'scs, was injured through the animal" falling and rolling on top of him.. Reay's collarbone was broken, and ho also suffered a slight concussion, necessitating his removal to the hospital. A serious shooting accident happened at Kaikoura last Saturday when Mr James Boyd. ;i weil-known ' farmer, sustained dangerous injuries. Mr Boyd Was trving a Winchester rifle preparatory- to ejoing on a pig-shooting expedition." He "fired one shot, but the second lumg fire, and Mr Boyd was in the act of "examining the rifle when the weapon went off. the bullet striking him in the face, ploughing through the cheek and breaking the cheek bone, ultimately coming out beside the ear, making a ghastly" wound, and resulting in the lass o*f a lot 'of blood. The unfortunate man was removed to the Kaikoura. Hospital. Rismus Petersen. a Dane, 'was received into the Hospital this morning. He was loading grain at Romahapa Downs, when the horse bolted, and he was thrown out. -of the dray, receiving a fracture of the right leg. Andrew M'Farlane. an expressman, was struck on the head by a concrete beam while taking fruit into Mr Moritzson"s premises in Jetty street this morning. He sustained slight injuries to the head and shoulders, but no Innies were broken. He was attended to at the Hospital. A middle-aged man, John Cunningham, hoarded the express for and fell asleep. When the cuanl went to examine his ticket he found him dead.— Hamilton wire. An inquest was held to-dav concerning the death at the Hospital of a seaman named Olsen, aged 37 years. Deceased was admitted from Terrace. Gaol suffering' from over-indulgence in alcohol!. Three' davs after he was sent to the Hospital sufferim' from pneumonia and typhoid fever, which resulted in his death.' A verdict was returned in accordance with the evidence.