ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 19024, 20 August 1925, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

A FRACTURED LEG. Mrs Jane Hutchins, aged seven!ythree years, who resides at 103 King street,' Sydenham, while visiting the cruiser -Omaha at Lyttelton yesterday, tripped and broke her lelt leg. She was attended by the ship’s doctor, and later removed to the Christchurch Hospital. MINER, SUCCUMBS TO INJURIES. An accident resulting fatally occurred at 10 a.m. yesterday at the Liverpool State Colliery at Rowanui, West Coast. A Dmiollie workman _ named James Whelan, aged about sixty years, was engaged in hooking on trucks at the bottom of a. jig, when a, race of trucks ran away, striking Whelan, and causing injuries to his head and hand, hut it'was thought that Whelan recover. After admission to the Grey River Hospital, .however, his condition changed, and death ensued at 5 p.m. A' horse, driver named John Rooney, and a horse narrowly .avoided a collision with the runaway trucks. DUE TO NATURAL CAUSES. ELDERLY .MAN’S DEATH. That John Davis died from heart failure following senile degeneration aggravated by bronchial asthma was the verdict returned by the coroner (Mr J. li. Bartholomew, S.M.) at the inquest held this morning. Davis, an elderly man., was lound dead in bed at the City Buffet yesterday morning. Jane Weatherston, proprietress of the City Buffet, described deceased as a man who was very reserved. He had no ton on Tuesday evening) i\ud she found him dead the following morning. Mavis Janet Weatherston, daughter of tlie previous witness, also gave eviScrgcant Dunlop said he found deceased lying fully clothed except for his hat and boots. Correspondence found on him showed that ho came from the Cromwell district. Dr Evans said that he examined the body. Marked senile degeneration was shown, as well ns degeneration of the blood vessels. Death was, in his opinion, duo to heart failure following senile degeneration aggravated by bronchial asthma. DIED IN BATH. Margaret Ann Marshall, a married woman, fifty-two years of ago, living at 174 Bay View' road, was found dead in her bath at 6 o’clock last evening. Dr Gerald Fitzgerald, who had been attending her for some time, was prepared to give a certificate that death was due to blood pressure, and the coroner decided that no inquest need bo held. A BLASTING ACCIDENT. Through an explosion, presumably of a charge for blasting a rock face in connection with road-making at Riwaka Valley, D’Arcy Mickell, a young man, sustained severe abdominal injuries.— Nelson Press Association telegram. A FATAL FALL. Henry Owen Boniface was the victim of a railway accident, falling in an attempt to board a train at Pukehou yesterday morning. Ho sustained tho loss of his right arm and four toes of the right foot, two fingers of the lelt hand, also a fractured skull. He died in hospital this morning.—-Waipukurau Press Association message.