ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 19698, 27 October 1927, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

FATAL FALLS. The death occurcd at Auckhind Hospital of .Bichard Henry Merrick, aged thirty-eight, who was admitted on Tuesday afternoon suffering Irom severe injuries as the result of lulling 40It from a girder, while working on a new building in Auckland railway station, yard. Deceased was a carpenter Press Association. Jeremiah Kellihcr, aged thirty-eight, employed at the AVollington Company’s gasworks at Miramar, fell irom a scaffold surrounding a chimney which was being demolished, and was instantaneously killed. It is thought that lie overbalanced, there being no wind at the time. Joseph Harvey, a waterside worker, was admitted to AA'ellinglou Hospital with a fractured skull at 5 p.m. yesterday, and died at 5.55 p.m. The deceased was a man of between forty-five and fifty years of age, and was a widower. He leaves a daughter, who is believed to reside in Christchurch. None of the other occupants of the boarding house in which he resided witnessed the accident, which occurred between 4 and 4.30 p.m. Harvey was found stretched out at the foot of the stairs, his head having come in violent contact with the concrete floor. The body lay in such a position as to indicate that the deceased had overbalanced when walking up the stairs. AN OLD MAN’S DEATH. The death occurred in the hospital last evening of John Alexander, aged 78, who was admitted in the afternoon with a knife wound in his arm.—Auckland Press Association telegram.