ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 19614, 21 July 1927, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

DROWNED IN STORAGE TANK. A Christchurch Association message states that William Rennie, a, single man, was found drowned yesterday afternoon in one ot the Lyttelton Borongh Council’s receiving tanks connected with the Hcathcote Valley warm supply. When it was found the body had been in the water for only a few hours. Rennie, who had been an omplciyeo ot the borough for some years, lived near the scene of the drovning. Arrangements have been made to emptv and clean the tank immediately. FOUND JN HARBOR. Inquests were hold at Wellington on John Henry Mickle, a wharf laborer, aged forty-two, and Michael Delaney, a laborer, aged thirty-seven, whose bodies were both found last Sunday floating in the harbor. Verdicts were returned that the deceased wore found drowned, no evidence being available us to how they got into the water. •V FATAL FALL. An inquest was held at Wellington on the body of Walter Valentino Keay. a machinist, aged thirty-seven, of 12(3 Elizabeth street, who died of a fractured skull, the result of falling while trying to avoid au approaching motor car on Saturday night.. A verdict was returned of accidental death, no blame being attachable to the driver of the motor car, whose statement that his car did not strike the deceased was accented. TRAM AND MOTOR TRUCK. Two persons were injured in a collision shortly after midday between a tram and a motor truck on Riccarton road. Christchurch. John Lowthcr. married, was taken to hospital with a fractured right shoulder and a fractured left log. A man named Mumford suffered minor injuries only. The truck on which Lowthcr was riding as a passenger was backing out on the roadway, and it struck a passing tram. Mumford was a passenger in the tram. TRAFFIC INSPECTOR KILLED. Joseph Shepherd, traffic inspector in the employ of the Now Zealand Railways, met with a. tragic fate at 7 o’clock last evening when returning to Invercargill on a motor trolley. For some unaccountable reason the trolley left_ the rails on the bridge over the Waibopai Stream, Shepherd being thrown into the water. Two boys heard a splash, and believed they saw it body being carried down the stream, but so far search by the police and railway officials has been fruitless.