ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 21994, 2 April 1935, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

FELL FROM ALOFT. The body of Joseph Whittaker Biekerton, aged 23 years, of Auckland, whose death occurred at sea as the result of an accident on the Makura, was brought to Wellington by the ship yesterday. The accident happened while the Makura was eu route from Papeete to San Francisco, Bickerton, who was an ordinary seaman on the vessel, fell from aloft and died immediately. FATAL COLLISION. Ernest Edward Ford, a labourer, aged 52, of Proctor street, Papamii, was killed last evening in a collision between a motor cycle he was riding and a motor car driven by James Robert Daniel Johns, a dairyman, of Belfast. The two vehicles collided head on, and Ford received very grave injuries, from which death must have been instantaneous. FOUND DEAD IN WORKSHOP. Mr Henry Dustan, aged 75, a superannuated railway servant, residing at 84 Pomona road, Invercargill, was found dead in his workshop last evening with a shotgun on the floor beside him. MOTOR RIDER’S FATAL CRASH. The death of, W. Dodds, who received grave injuries when his motor cycle crashed at Waikanae Beach on Sunday, occurred in the hospital at midnight. Crashing when travelling at a high speed in a motor race, Dodds received extensive head injuries and a fracture of the base of the skull.—Wellington Press Association.