ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 21905, 17 December 1934, Page 12

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

FATAL JUMP FROM RUNNINGBOARD. A Hokitika Association message states that Mary Honey, aged seventeen years, died last night following an accident. She was standing on the runningboard of a moving motor car, and jumped off, landing on her head, and dying four hours later. FOUND HANGING, . Harley Watson Liddell, aged about forty, a telegraph' linesman, who had been missing since Saturday night, was found hanging in a small motor shed at the rear of the Blenheiin Post Office. Liddell was formerly stationed at Hamilton, and was transferred to Blenheim about three months ago for special work. His mother resides in Ferguson street, Palmerston North.'—Press Association.' WATERS! DER KILLED. A seventy-years’ old watersider, John Shearer, received fatal injuries as the result of falling down the hold of the; vessel Beureoch at Napier late dir Saturday afternoon. He engaged in replacing the hatch covering on the lower hold when he tripped and foil 15ft into the hold.—Press Association. DROWNED IN RIVER. • A verdict of. accidental • death was returned at the inquest to-day on William. Ferguson Wilson, aged fifty-seven, who was drowned , while swimming in the Tafnaki River yesterday. He waved to a friend from the water, hut a few minutes later he . was seen to be face downwards. - Restorative measures failed.—Auckland Press Association. A LINESMAN’S NARROW ESCAPE. Harold Smith,, married, with eight children, is now in the hospital in a serious condition. Smith, an employee of the. Manawatu-Groua Power Board, was working yesterday with » gang under the engineer of the board on repairs. The lower lines had heem disconnected, but the lines on top of the poles were not. Smith was on a pole restraining, the dead . fmes when his shoulder contacted with a 11,000 volt line. He fell and was caught hi the dead lines which prevented his fall to the ground, 25ft below. His comrades lowered him by ropes in an unconscious condition. —Fielding Press Association. OLD MAN BADLY BUBNED. After being badly burned in a lire at his hut at Westerfield, Thomas Pickering, aged seventy-six, single, lay -m a shed conscious but helpless until discovered yesterday afternoon.. He stated that he woke on Thursday night to.hhd the hut on fire. His clothes were burning and he rushed to a nearby water race. Badly burned about the t arms and head, he was sent to hospital. ■*, Ashburton Press Association.