FATAL STREET ACCIDENT

Evening Star, Issue 17921, 17 March 1922, Page 8

FATAL STREET ACCIDENT

BOY KILLED WHILE AT PLAY.

A distressing fatality occurred about 5 o’clock yesterday evening, when a boy, three and a-ha!f years of age, was killed at Kensington while playing in the street. The little chap was the son _of Mr Leslie Moody, a railway engine-driver, recently transferred to Dunedin from Tiraaru, and who had been living temporarily at the Kensington Hotel. ihe boy, it appears, had been playing in an upstairs room at the hotel with the two children of Mr E. E. Rowe, and the three had gone unnoticed into King Edward street. They were playing “horses,” when a gig with two men iu it came round tho corner, and ran into the little boy Moody, and knocked him down. When he w;us carried into the hotel he was found to Ire dead. Tho accident occurred near the intersection of Grosvenor street, and the circumstances are being inquired into by the South Dunedin police. An inquest "was formally opened by the coroner (Mr J. R. Bartholomew,S.M.) at the hotel last night. Dr Evans gave evidence that he went out to the hotel about 5 p.m. in response to a telephone message. The body was quite warm, and death had taken place shortly before. There was a email abrasion on the outer side of the left knee joint and a large abrasion on the left side of the face, the latter being covered with tar, suggesting that it had been in contact with the asphalt. There was copious bleeding from mouth, nose, and ears, especially the right ear, and there was distinct evidence of a fracture of tho skull. The opinion he formed was that there was a fracture at the base of tho skull, which was the cause of death.

The Coroner adjourned the inquest until Monday.