ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 19894, 16 June 1928, Page 11

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

SAD END TO HOLIDAY. An Ashburton Association message states that Maude Bishop, aged twenty-two, died cu route' to the -hospital ‘last evening from injuries sustained through being knocked down by a motor driven by a youth. She had alighted from a bus, and was crossing to the opposite side of the road when struck. Her parents reside at Waikanae, Mataura, and Miss Bishop had been spending a holiday with an uncle. She had intended returning home to-day. DEPRESSED. Alan Archibald Cameron, aged fifty, was found dead at ins residence at Mastcrton. At the inquest a verdict was returned that deceased died from the effects of poison self-administered. The coroner added that it appeared that the deceased had been drinking and had financial worries, and at times became depressed. The deceased was manager of tho Castlepoint Station for_ twenty _ years, and later owned Glencrieff Station. CRUSHED IN MINE. At the Palmerston Courthouse, before Mr Bundle, S.M., coroner), tho inquest on the. body of William James Robertson, who was killed in tho Shag Point Coal Company’s mine on May 23, was resumed Further evidence was given by Hubert Barber, Frederick Walter Lowen, Archibald Kennedy M'Lean and Alexander Sinclair Gillanders. After hearing the evidence the coroner found .that the deceased was accidentally crushed to death in the Shag Point coal mine on May 23 while following his occupation as a miner. KNOCKED DOWN BY MOTOR. At 11.40 this morning Mrs C. Spain, aged seventy-one years, and residing at Leith Valley was knocked down by a motor car in Lower High street, receiving leg injuries, which necessitated her removal to the hospital.