ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 18698, 29 July 1924, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

OLD MAN’S DEATH. Adam M’Ncil, seventy-six years of ago, unmarried, and an inmate of Boss Home, died suddenly at the home yesterday morning. Ho had retired at 7.50 o’clock the previous evening, and was then apparently in his usual good health. He was discovered dead in his bed at 7.30 the following morning. Having been attended to by Dr Marshall on several occasions for heart trouble an inquest was not necessary. RETURNED SOLDIER’S DEATH. A returned soldier, Arthur Conway, aged about thirty, morried, with one child, was cutting the limbs of a large tree at Picton yesterday afternoon when a falling branch carried away the ladder on which ho- was standing, and ho fell some distance, dislocating his neck. He died in the hospital three hours later.—Blenheim Press Association telegram. A FOOTBALLER’S DEATH. A fatality occurred during tho football match between Clinton and Baldntha, played at Clinton on Saturday afternoon. Peter Erlandson, aged twenty-three years, playing for Clinton, collapsed before the interval, and was unable to resume play, dying shortly afterwards. At the inquest before Mr l)ixon (coroner) yesterday Dr Brown testified that, the cause of death was acute dilation of the heart, following extreme exertion, and a verdict was returned (o that effect. Tho deceased was a native of Clinton, and was very highly respected. Edward Boss, single, aged twenty-one years, employed as a bush feller at Tarara, Gatlins district, was admitted to the Dunedin Hospital last night with a fractured right log. Tho injury was caused by a tree falling on him. In trying to avoid a wandering horse on the Anderson Bay road on Sunday evening, David Smyth Coutts, who was riding a motor cycle, met with a severe accident. His motor skidded and he fell, almost severing three fingers of his left hand. Coutts, who is twenty years of age and is employed as an engine cleaner, resides at 498 Anderson Bay road. George Longhurst, aged sixty-five, collapsed on tho footpath in a suburb at Wellington yesterday and expired. While loading a* truck of iron rails at the wharf at Wellington yesterday, C. Bowden, a waterside worker, had his leg badly crushed through one of tho rails slipping.