ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 20671, 19 December 1930, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

CHEMIST’S SUDDEN END. Ronald Davidson, aged forty-two. a chemist, who was unemployed, living in Wanganui East, died suddenly yesterday. BODY FOUND IN CREEK. The body of Mrs Esther Wright,who had been missing from the Lister Hospital since Wednesday evening, was found in a creek running into the Omaha River, yesterday afternoon.; The missing woman had been an inmate of the hospital for a considerable period. Mrs Wright went for her customary walk on Wednesday evening, and was not seen alive again. The police and friends searched all night and yesterday.—Blenheim Press Association message. CYCLIST COLLIDES WITH CAR. Ernest Welsh, residing at Outram,was riding a motor cycle near the township yesterday afternoon when h© collided with a motor car fracturing his right leg. He was admitted to the Dunedin Hospital. MOTOR CYCLIST KILLED. A motor cycle crashed on th© Hamliton-Cam bridge road in the early hours of this morning while returning from a Cambridge dance. The driver of the motor cycle (Harry Arthur Hooper), thirty, single, a news agent’ at Hamilton was killed, and one passenger in the sidecar (Thomas Kelly, twenty-six, a bootmaker of Hamilton East was admitted to hospital with a fractured skull. His condition is serious. Miss Horne, who was also in the sidecar, escaped uninjured Hamilton Press Association telegram.