ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 21821, 10 September 1934, Page 12

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

SPINE FRACTURED AT FOOTBALL. William Sharpe, • aged twenty-five, an employee in the State colliery, was seriously injured in the, neck when playing football on Saturday, for Civil Service, at Hokitika. His spinal column was fractured, but hopes of his recovery are entertained. ■ SHOOTING FATALITY. Donald Lourie; aged twenty-seven, who is believed to reside near Taihape, and had been staying at Hanmer, borrowed a shotgun from the unemployment camp at Glynn Wye about 2 p.m. on Sunday to shoot hare. He was found dead at a fence, near the camp With the gun beside him, and a serious wound in the head. As the leg of his, trousers was torn, it is assumed that the gun was discharged accidentally as he was getting through the fence. FALL FROM HOSPITAL WINDOW. Patrick Torpey, aged 66 years, fell 40ft or 50ft from the window of a ward in the Auckland Hospital on Friday evening and was killed. INJURIES PROVE FATAL. Critically injured when a sledge laden with timber overturned upon him and broke his neck at. Ohinewai on Thursday, George Bright, a farm hand, aged fifty-one, died in the Waikato Hospital on Saturday morning. WOMAN’S BODY IN LAKE. The body of a middle-aged woman was found floating in Hamilton Lake shortly before noon on Saturday by, two Canoe Club youths. It was-re-moved to the morgue, and has not yet been identified. SAWMILL WORKER KILLED. A man named Arthur Penny was killed on Saturday at a sawmill near Owhango. While loading a log on a motor truck the log slipped, pinning Penny, who suffered internal injuries and fractured his pelvis. He was conveyed to the Taumarunui Hospital still conscious, but died soon after his admission. The deceased was about twentyseven years old. His wife and relatives are believed to live at Whangarei. DEATH FOLLOWS FALL. John Quirk, aged seventy-six, a' farmer of Ward, while inspecting his sheep yesterday fell down a steep slope and broke his leg. He was taken to the hospital, where he died from shock. —Blenheim Press Association. CAR OVER BANK. A motor car driven by Dr B. H.Gilmour, of Lyttelton, ran off the road 1 near Governor’s Bay early yesterday morning, plunged down a bank, and overturned. The doctor was severely; shaken, hut not injured. The car, : a’ sedan, was badly damaged, the top being smashed in.—Christchurch Press Association. GIRL FALLS OVER CLIFF. Freda Helen Sewell, aged sixteen, fell from the_ cliffs on to the beach near St. Heliers yesterday morning. She was found by children and removed to the hospital, suffering serious interna! injuries. No limbs are broken. It is considered remarkable that she was not killed.—Auckland Press Association. SUCCUMBS TO INJURIES. The death occurred in the Oamarn Hospital on Saturday of . Mrs Margaret Ann M‘Arthur as the result of injuries received in a motor accident at Oto. kaieke on Thursday. She was a passenger in a car driven by Miss Greer,of Kurow, when it overturned, Mm George Stringer _ being _ killed. Mm M'Arthur was seriously injured.—Press Association.