ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 18504, 11 December 1923, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

BOAT TRAGEDY. TWO MEN DROWNED. A Gore telegram states that Georg M'Corkindale (aged twenty-six, single) am William M'Gowan (aged nineteen, single) who were employed by William Pannett a Waiwera South, were in a boat on thWaiwera River on Sunday when it wa swamped. Both were drowned. Advic from Balclutha is that both bodies hav> been recovered. The boat was in a leak; condition, and the tragedy, which oc curred about a quarter of a mile from th mouth, at a place whore there were hig and steep banks on either side of the rivei was witnessed by two mates of the de ceased—G. L. B. Henderson and P. I Anderson—who were unable to render as sistanco on account of the inaccessibl nature of the locality. , KNOCKED DOWN BY CAR. Details of the happenings which results in the death of Michael Faul, who wa knocked down at Wellington by a mote car on December 5, were outlined befor the coroner (Mr W. E. Page) yesterday. Evidence was given by several witnesse as to the motor-car accident which cause | the deceased’s injuries. The car wr driven backwards out of the garage an very slowly along the road towards a sho on the other side. Deceased, who \yaa. a elderly man, was walking towards tl shop when the car struck him and push?; him along the road for a few feet. i Dr Hector gave evidence as to deceased i condition when admitted to the hospita He was suffering from several abrasioi and a wound on his head, but there wf no fracture of any bones. The deceased’ heart was very fatty, and, in his opinior the cause of clea-tb was syncope, resultin from a fatty disease of the heart. _ Deat, might have' occurred at any time irrespet tive of the accident. A verdict was returned that death wa due to heart failure, the deceased bavin; been knocked down by a motor car. De ceased’s death was most probably acceler ated by the accident and by the subse quent anfcsthetic. The coroner remarker that the doings of the deceased were fai from clear. taawieinßmiwwrwwMi n mmssmma*