ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 19795, 20 February 1928, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

FATHER’S TRAGIC DISCOVERY. Some time on Friday evening Frederick William Harrison, aged nineteen, fell off the wharf into New Plymouth Harbor. He evidently struck his head cu something and was drowned, Tho familv are lump in two different houses and each tnought the young man was with the older. On Saturday at tornoon a hoy fishing on the wharf taw the body and notified the police. A constiblo sought tho assistance of a man aciking with a boat on the beach, and tho man rowed out to tho body, tinned it o\er, and discovered tint it was his own son. There was an extensive bruise on the forehead. It was disclosed that the young man had intended to hoard a launch lying beside the. wharf, and in going down the ladder he had probably fallen. Ho could not swim and ho may have been rendered unconscious by the fall.— Press Association, BROKEN RIBS NOT DISCLOSED. At. the inquest at Wellington concerning tho death of Thomas George Needham, a carrier, who died on .February .11 following a collision between a horse and cart and a tramcar in Tinakori road, Dr Lynch gave it as his opinion that death was duo to injuries to the chest and liver, complicated by pneumonia, which arose as the result of chest injuries. A post mortem showed that eight rihs had been fractured. Dr Alexander Robertson said he examined Needham at deceased's home, and found him to ho suffering from pneumonia. Needham said lie had been X-rayed at tho hospital, and told that no hones were broken. Ho had pressed Needham’s chest with both hands, but Needham did not complain of any pain. The hospital superintendent indicated that if the patient were, mentally capable of judging for himself and chose to leave tho hospital, witness would have no legal right to keep him. It was stated by Dr Lynch, who is pathologist at the hospital, that X-ray examinations frequently failed to reveal fractures of the rihs for tho reason that they were frequently produced without displacement of hone ends. Tho proceedings were adjourned for (he evidence of flic doctor who attended Needham at the hospital. MOTORING FATALITIES. Shortly after midnight a man named William" Gay, single, a laborer, aged fifty-five, was killed on the Picton road near Spring Creek, being run over by a motor Inis, driven by John Edward Hurbley, a taxi driver, of Picton. Tho deceased crossed the road in front of tho bus, which swerved to avoid him. Tho man staggered hack, and was hit by tho radiator, and the wheel also passed over him, death being instantaneous. George Boswell, the thirteen-year old son of Thomas Boswell, carrier and contractor, of Hiknrangi, was killed on Saturday evening through a lorry running over his-chest. The driver, W. Myers, had entered a house at Ward, leaving tho boy on the seat. By some moans he started tho vehicle and fell out, being discovered still alive on the roadway by neighbors who drove to a doctor, but on arrival tho boy was dead.—Whangarci message.