ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 21819, 7 September 1934, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

CAR SOMERSAULT—FARMER’S WIFE KILLED. A Timaru Association message states that an accident occurred on the Kurow road four miles from. Duntroon yesterday afternoon, as the result of. which Mrs George Stringer, the wife of _ a farmer at Otekaike, lost her life. Miss Grere, of Kurow, was driving four lady passengers, when the car left the road, turned two somersaults, and landed on its wheels in a paddock on the left side of the road, facing the direction from which it came. Mrs Stringer died be- ; fore the arrival of Dr M'Millan, of l Kurow. Mrs Fergus M‘Arthur, of Omarama, was seriously injured and taken to Oamaru Hospital. FALL INTO HARBOUR. Suddenly leaving the young woman he was accompanying, Alexander Henry . Shaw, a single man, aged about thirty, went to the edge of the Queen’s . wharf ferry at Auckland about 6.30 o’clock last evening. and fell into the harbour, and was drowned within a few minutes. The incident was not immediately observed, but a constable who was on duty nearby climbed down the adjacent steps ,in an Attempt to trace Shaw, but the young man bad disappeared, Later the body was recovered, Shaw, who was a traveller, lived at Devonport. BOY’S OWN CARELESSNESS. A verdict that deat'. was causes 1 by the boy’s own carelessness was ret; d by the coroner, Mr Gilbertso, at , Wellington, in regard to Leo on Keisenberg, aged nine, who. vaa knocked down by a motor car ic .delaide road on August 21. The co aer said he thought from the evidence. hat the boy hid tripped and fallen, and that the car caught him when he yas attempting to get up. He though., tua accident was the result of the boy nob paying attention to the car. FALL FROM POWER POLE. Falling 19ft from the top of a power pole at Tikorangi, John M. Butch, of Stratford, an employee of the Taranaki Power Board, struck his head on a post and received a fracture. of the skull. He died in the ambulance on the way to hospital, SUDDEN DEATH. An inquest was held at the morgua this morning on the body' of William. Patrick Davidson, who was found dead in bed at a boarding house in Georga street, on Wednesday. Mr. J. R. Bartholomew. S.M.,- sat as coroner, and Sergeant Boulton represented tha police. . Evidence of identification was given by Henry A. Davidson, a brother of the deceased, who said that the de- : ceased was a single man, fifty-seven years of age, and a returned soldier, having served in both the South African and the Great War. He returned from the latter, badly gassed, and ha had done no work since. - Dr E. F. D’Ath gave evidence of having made a post mortem esamina* tion from which he was of opinion that deceased died from sudden heart failure, the. result of disease of tha coronary arteries. . . The coroner returned a verdict- m accordance with the medical evidence* . BODY BURNS. Albert Williams, aged four, residing > with his parents at 113 Harrow street, upset a kettle of boiling water yesterday, receiving burns about the bodyj He was admitted to the hospital, hut his condition is not serious. , SEVERE SPINAL INJURIES. Severe spinal injuries, which are believed to include a broken neck, ( wera received by a farm labourer, Georga Bright, single, aged fifty-one. Ho was driving a sledge, which overturned, at Ohinewai yesterday afternoon, and was admitted to the Waikato Hospital. Hif - condition is critical.—Hamilton Prca Association.