ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 19617, 25 July 1927, Page 1

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

■ • . M BURNED TO DEATH. ' An Auckland Association message] states that Sydney Edwin Lodge, a! single man, agod about seventy-two, employed as night watchman, wasj burned to death in a hut in the yard t of A. and T. Burt’s foundry in Graham J street. Freeman’s Bay, early yesterday ) morning. A neighbor, who saw flames coining from the hut at about a quarter to 4. rushed over, but the building was burning so fiercely that he could do nothing. When the brigade had extinguished the fire Lodge’s charred body was found iu the ruins. | MOTOR CYCLIST KILLED. Through colliding with a motor lorry ,on tho new North road, Auckland. Edward Clifford Nicholls, aged twentytwo, a motor cyclist, received injuries from which be died in hospital yesterday. Nicholls was single, and it is believed that his parents live in Sydney. The accident occurred at a spot where half the road is under repairs. j A FRACTURED SKULL, Three young men. William Pope, J. M'Natty, and Charles Atkinson, who were riding a motor cycle on Saturday night, collided with a telegraph pole. Atkinson’s skull was fractured, and his condition is critical. The others escaped with slight injuries.—lnvercargill Press Association telegram