ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 22648, 14 May 1937, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

ESCAPE FROM BURNING CAR. When their car overturned and caught fire, three girls from Uruti suffered injuries. They, with three others, had to smash the hood of the car to escape. • Miss Dorothy Reeves suffered a broken collar-bone, Miss D. Havlock a cut behind an ear, and Miss, Ruth Oxenham bruises and shock. —New Plymouth message. BURNED TO DEATH. Emelies Warne, aged 76, was burned to death in his hut at Orari early yesterday morning. The fire was noticed at 6 a.m. by some neighbours, who removed the body of the deceased from the debris, the hut being totally destroyed. An inquest was' held before Mr H, W- Morgan, S.M., who returned a verdict that the deceased met his death through the hut catching fire, but there was no evidence to show how the fire originated. DEATH IN CABIN. Some time last night a passenger on the Arahura, from Nelson to Wellington, died in his cabin. He was Henry George Bryant, farmer, a married man aged 60, of Manakau. It is supposed that death was due to natural causes.— Press Association. SCALP WOUNDS. Thomas M'Caughan, residing at Seddon street, Ravensbourne, fell near his home last night and was admitted to the Hospital at 8.30 suffering from scalp wounds. FRACTURED SKULL AND NECK. At the adjourned inquest on the body of George' Illingworth, who was found on the rocks below a cliff at Harrington Point on April 15, the coroner (Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M.) returned a verdict that death was due to shock following fractures of the base of the skull and the neck, received when deceased fell down the cliff.