ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 20506, 10 June 1930, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

LESLIE HUNT’S DEATH. An inquest was opened this morning into the circumstances of the death of Leslie Thomas Hunt, who died in ie Dunedin Hospital- yesterday after being admitted to the institution suffering from severe injuries received as the' result of a collision between a motor bus and a motor car on the DunbackPalmerstoh road, Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M., sitting as coroner. Sergeant M'Carthy represented the polices Evidence of identification was given by Henry Joseph Willis, railway clerk, who said that the deceased was a single man, twenty-four years of age, and was employed as a clerk in the railway goods office at Pufeeuri. The inquest was adjourned to a time and place to be fixed later, the coroner intimating that it would probably be held at Palmerston at 10 a.m. on Tuesday next. SUDDEN COLLAPSE. ELDERLY MAN’S. DEATH. The hearing of the mouest into the Circumstances of the death of Mr Richard Tornent, aged sixty-eight years, who collapsed at Logan Park on Saturday afternoou, was resumed at the courthouse yesterday afternoon, Mr H. \V. Bundle, S.M., sitting as coroner. George Brookes, bootmaker, gave evidence that he was talking with the deceased at the Alhambra-Taieri football match, when he suddenly collapsed and fell forward, striking his head ou the rail.

William M‘Donald, railway employee, gave similar evidence, and said that after the deceased fell h« was turned on to his back, but did not appear to be breathing. % Albert Burk, plumber, said that when ho saw deceased he thought he was iu a very bad way, and, with the_ assistance of M'Donald, witness carried deceased iu a stretcher to witness’s car, after which he was conveyed, to the hospital. On arrival at the hospital it was found that deceased was dead. He was one of the original members of the Alhambra Football Club, and attended football matches regularly. The coroner found that the deceased died from heart disease', and he said that, although the exact cause of death might be a little indefinite, there was no doubt it was some form of heart disease.

BLASTING MISHAP. A premature explosion during blasting operations at the HalsweU quar, ries, Canterbury, caused Frederick Joseph Sparks, aged fifty, to be hurled down a slope from the tog> of the quarry. He was admitted to Christchurch Hospital with a broken arm, throe broken ribs, and suffering from severe shock. A gang of men had placed a shot in a face of rock. To Sparks was allotted the duty of firing the charge. Before Sparks got clear the charge fired unexpectedly, and ha was hurled down with a mass cf rock. Fortunately, - he was not carried to the bottom of the quarry. MOTOR MISHAPS, A Palnatua message states that a youth named Eric Sanders, a’-do cycling, was kncc':ed down by a car, and was removed to the publichospital. His parents reside at M -ngamutn Mrs Gillam. senior, a resident of Horn kn, was also removed to hospital as a result of injuries received when a motor car ran into a bank at Kcnini.