ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 19713, 14 November 1927, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

KNOCKED DOWN BY TRAM. An Auckland Association telegram states that Miss O’Shea, employed by Hugh Wright, ERE) '"'as knocked down by a tramcar and sustained a fractured skull. Her condition is serious. JOCKEY’S INJURY. An examination at the hospital oi N. Rowe tli© rider of To Tahi, which fell in the hurdle'race at Whangaroi racecourse on Saturday, revealed a Iracturo at the base of the skull. He is progressing favorably.—Press Association, SOMERSAULTING CYCLE. Pcder Pederson, of Wbangarei, had a marvellous escape from death early yesterday morning. In attempting to clodge tlie traffic dome at the intersection of Kamo road and Nixon street he lost control of his motor cycle and i.an into the kerb, 'the cycle leapt into the air, somersaulted, and landed a chain away in an empty section. The cycle fell on Pederson, who broke las right forearm, besides receiving a deep cut in the right thigh and a gash in the forehead. A pillion passenger named Wilson was practically uninjured. The cycle in its flight missed a stone wall by indies. Pederson was admitted to the hospital.—Press Association. DEATH FROM BURNS. Mary Anne Murphy, aged 72 years, died iii Christchurch Hospital on Fnday N nigbt, live days after her admission sulfering from severe burns on the lace and bauds, the result of a tiro at her homo. Her husband, Patrick Murpliy, and her son, Leo Murphy, were also severely burned. At the inquest Sergeant A!. Hodgkins said there was no evidence showing how the lire started, but it had originated in the room where the deceased and the others were sitting. There was no lire in the grate. The inquest was adjourned. BOY DROPS DEAD ON HILL. A Grcymouth Association message states that James O’Brien (aged Vi) , when pushing a cycle up a hill . at Nelson Creek yesterday, dropped dead of heart failure. . RIGHT ARM FRACTURE. George Hunter, a married man, aged ■57, residing -at- 33 Market street, St. Kilda, was thrown from-a motor aidecar on the Taieri Plain yesterday. He was taken to the hospital at 4.30 p.ni., suffering from a fracture of tiio right arm. HEAD INJURIES. By being knocked down by a motor car in King street on Saturday night William Mulroonoy, aged 36, residing at 4 Cashel .street, Soutli Dunedin, received bead- injiirics. Ho was taken to’, the hospital at llvllO o’clock. ■

FOUND DROWNED. Advice was received by the police today that the body of William Roberts, who was missing from, Waipori Falls last night, was found in the Waipori River this morning. The deceased was 'a single man about 30 years of age. liis mother lives in Gibson street, Roslyn, but the deceased, who was a baker by trade, bad been working at Wanganui and was in Dunedin on holidays. Ho had been on a fishing expedition yesterday. The body was removed to Dunedin, and an inquest was opened tin’s afternoon for the purpose of identification. CHILD FATALLY BURNED. A Taumarunui Association message slates that a child, Bertha Ellon Harriet Bennett, aged three years and eight months, died in the hospital yesterday as the result of burns received on Saturday. The child was left in the house at her parents’ home at Pungapmiga, near Maminui, while the father wont outside temporarily. A few minutes inter another child ran out to the father to say that his sister was on lire. The child was badly burned.