ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 22367, 17 June 1936, Page 13

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

RUN OVER BY TRAIN. Run over by the wheels of a carriage of a suburban passenger train at Otahuhu station, Richard Edelsteu, aged 54, an unemployed ..lotor painter, of Otahuhu, was killed instantaneously. Edelsteu had left his home shortly before 8 a.m. to travel to Auckland by train. As the 8.18 train was moving slowly from the island platform, Edelsten was seen running across the lines of the eastern sidings towards the rear carriage. Feeling unusual bumps, the guard signalled the train to stop, and the body of Edelsten was found on the line. The wheels of the last carriage had passed over his chest. Edelsten, ’ho leaves a wife and two children, was a returned soldier, having served with the Australian forces during tho Great War. CYCLIST FATALLY INJURED. Fatal injuries were received by Richmond Henry Lockyer, of Hinuera, as tho result of a collision with a motor lorry and trailer driven by Joseph Tebes, of Frankton. The deceased was riding a bicycle towards Hinuera when he was knocked down near the Matamata racecourse. He died before the arrival of a doctor. COLLAPSE ON ROAD. An Invercargill Association message states that Alfred Rasmussen, a wellknown resident of Lake Hayes, near Queenstow’n, was found dead yesterday on the main highway close to the crossroad leading into Threepwood He was engaged ill rabbiting on Threepwood, and was cycling from his home when apparently he collapsed. His bicycle was found lying on top of him. Ho was 58 years old. AN INFANT’S DEATH. iThis morning, about 10 o’clock, Mrs Ritchie Bell discovered her infant child, a boy of six months, dead in Ids cot. Tho child had been fed and put down to sleep, when it evidently became sick and choked. Dr Austin was immediately called in, but all efforts at resuscitation were ineffective. Considerable sympathy is felt for Mr Bell, who only last month lost his father,—Cromwell correspondent. STILL UNCONSCIOUS. George Gordon Davidson, driver of the car in which Leonard Leslie Hart was killed when it collided with a lorry near Wairau Valley, is still unconscious. His brother, James Mories Davidson, single, who was also in the car, has now been sent to tho hosnital with internal injuries.—Blenheim Press Association.