ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 19352, 11 September 1926, Page 10

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

FATALLY CRUSHED

The inquest concerning the death of Cecil Herbert Kcnroy, a railway cleaner, who died on September 7 from injuries received by being pinned between an engine tender and a coal stage at the Auckland railway yards, was held yesterday before Mr W. R M'Kean, ft.M. Henry Clayton Bishop, an engine driver, stated that ho was driving the engine which struck deceased. The engine was being shunted in order to put it in a shod. Deceased was engaged in turning the points. After turning tine sot of points deceased ran ahead of the engine, and the next time witness saw him he came from the hack of the engine and looked towards witness. H r had previously been walking on the left-hand side of the engine. He had now crossed the line, and was standing alongside the coal stage. Witness realised deceased was in a dangerous place, and called out “ Look out!” bul deceased made no reply. Ho was at that moment almost alongside the tender. Witness then made an attempt to stop ttie engine, hut it traveller l about sft before coming to rest. When tbo engine stopped deceased was pinned between the tender and the coal stage, and the clearance was only 4in at that point. Parts of tbo coal stage had to bo dismantled in order to free deceased Deceased had always attended to this particular engine, and on previous occasions the engine was moved in a similar manner. He knew the round the engine would have to take. Witness bad no idea why deceased crossed the engine and what ho was doing by the coal stage. The Coroner, in returning a verdict of accidental death, said it was dtfficnU to understand why deceased had crossed the engine. There seemed to be no reason for bis having pone to the eon' stage. The witnesses bad been unable to suggest any reason, and the coroner was unable to do so.

LORRY WRECKED. As tlic Wellington express was pullins; into Waipawa yesterday afternoon the engine naught a motor lorry driven by a lad named Rex Witherow, and carried it some distance before it. pulled up. Witherow was thrown out, and miraculously escaped serious injury. The lorry was wrecked. FATAL FALL FROM HORSE. William Rrookshy, aged sixteen years, an orphan inmate of the Salvation Army’s Home at Elthnm, suffered injuries sustained in a fall from a pony while bringing in the cows. He died later at the Hawera Hospital. At the inquest a verdict of accidental death was returned. BREAKING ROPE TRAGEDY. A fatal accident occurred at Mommotu, near Taihape, when Alfred Norman Clarence Anderson was killed and William Brown injured internally ns a result of a rone breaking and flying back on the men. An inquest was opened, but it was adjourned till Brown is fit to give evidence. FATAL HEAD INJURIES—FALL FROM TR AIN. Mrs Pemberton, aged thirty-four, the wife of Samuel Pemberton, of Ellerslio, was found on the Ellerslio railway station at 10 o’clock last night as the train was leaving, with bend injuries consistent with a fall from the train. A doctor pronounced life extinct. It is believed _ that she was a passenger by the train which arrived at Ellerslie at 9.40, and that her body had been lying on the platform until the arrival of the next train.—Auckland Association message. FARMER FOUND SHOT. A Christchurch Association message states that Thomas Henry Guy, aged thirty-two, a farmer, of Fernsidc, was found shot dead to-day in a shod. A revolver lay alongside.