ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 19535, 18 April 1927, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

COLLAPSE IN CHURCH. Michael M'Keowen, aged seventythree, a resident of Goring street, collapsed suddenly in the Basilica, Hill street, Wellington, while walking up the aisle to attend Mass just before 7 o’clock yesterday. He died in a few minutes. It is understood that deceased suffered from heart trouble. He was for some time at Kokotau, a farming settlement six miles from Carter-ton.—-Press Association. DEPRESSED OVER HEALTH. Alban William King, factory manager, was found dead at the back of his residence in Wellington with a gun lying across his legs. Deceased was thirty-five years of age, married, with two children. Ho had been employed in a dairy factory for the past ten years, and was popular in the district. He rose yesterday as usual, and started the factory boiler fire, returning to his house for breakfast. He brought the motor car out for Ids wife and family to go to church, and they left at 7.45. As the manager did not return to the factory, and the carts were beginning to arrive, an assistant sent a message to the house, and King was found as described. At the inquest the evidence showed that he had been depressed over the state of his health. A verdict was given accordingly.—Press Association. CAR OVERTURNED. An Auckland Association message states that by the overturning of a five-seater car near Te Puke David Cambie, sawmiller, of Tauranga, had several ribs broken and his chest injured; Mrs Cambie suffered a broken rib and her shoulder was badly bruised; A. Findlay had his nose broken and his knee hurt; R. Gray suffered injury to one arm; and D. K, Cambie, junior, sustained a severe knock on the head,. The car was completely wrecked. COLLISION WITH TRAM. Charles A. Pettigrew, thirty-five years old, was badly injured in a collision with a tramcar near the Esplanade, New Brighton, Christchurch, about 7 p.m. on Saturday. He was on a motor cycle. Pettigrew sustained a bad compound fracture of the right leg, one of his hands was torn, and he was injured on the face. Ho was hurried in an ambulance to the hospital, where he was operated on.—Press Association. BODY FOUND AT PURAKANUL Lying.face downwards in six inches of water, the body of g man was found yesterday at Purakanui. It was so much decomposed as to be unrecognisable, and the contents of the pockets gave no clue to the man’s identity. Deceased appeared to he a man about fifty years of age. At an inquest held before Mr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M. (sitting as coroner), a hoy identified the body as that of a man he saw leaving the train and entering the bush on April 4. The inquest was adjourned.

The deceased was dressed in a dark grey tweed suit, and a soft grey felt hat. His military boots, which had rubber heels, had been recently halfsoled. In the pockets were a few odds and ends, including _ a white-handled pocket knife and a pair of steel rimmed spectacles in a brown leather case embossed with the name of a Wellington optician. MOTOR CYCLE MISHAP. A young man, N. P. Marshall, who resides at Seddqn road, _ Birkenhead, Auckland, met with a serious accident on the Rapakura road on Saturday afternoom. He had been riding a motor bicycle, and came to grief. The driver of a taxicab, M'Call, saw Marshall lying on the road with a cut on his head, and at once took him to Dr M'llae, who gave first aid and ordered Marshall's removal to rhe hospital. He was found to have severe injuries to his head, and his condition is c rsiderod serious.—Press Association, BODY IN LUPINES. The body of the man found in the lupines near Chisholm Park on Saturday has been • identified as that of Michael Edward Duggan, single, aged about thirty-eight years, and a native of Ireland, who recently came from Auckland to Dunedin. Last evening an inquest was opened at the Morgue before Mr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M. (sitting as coroner), Sergeant Lennon represented the police. Evidence of identification was given by Mrs Jane Kirkland, who said that the deceased had stopped with her for a period, and had left her place in the early part of January. She saw him again in the following month, the last occasion on which she had seen him alive. Constable Cooper also gave evidence of identification. Constable _ Palmer, St. Kildn, said that on going to Chisholm Park he found the body in a very decomposed state. With the exception of boots and hat, _ deceased was fully dressed. The position of the body suggested to witness that deceased had been asleep. The coroner the inquest sine die.

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