ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 22722, 9 August 1937, Page 12

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

FATAL LORRY CAPSIZE. Injuries which proved fatal were feoeived by ■ John Moore, a butcher’s assistant, single, 25 years of age, when the lorry he was driving left the road near Totara Flat. Moore was thrown out of the vehicle, which capsized upon him, inflicting severe injuries to the_ head and pelvis, and also internal injury. He was admitted .to the Grey mouth Hospital, and succumbed three hours later. GUNSHOT WOUND IN HEAD. Walter Smith, aged 24, married, a rabbiter, was removed to a private hospital in Te Awamutu on Saturday night in a critical condition as the result of a gunshot wound in the forehead. He entered a cab of a motor truck, _ and _ after a few minutes’ conversation with his wife, who was standing beside the vehicle, loaded his rifle and, it is stated, pointed it at his forehead, MISHAP WITH AXE, Hitting his leg with considerable force with an axe while trimming piles near the Harbour Board’s offices this morning, Alfred Ives, who resides at Queen street, Mosgiel, injured his left knee. He was admitted to the Hospital at 10 o’clock. FALL OFF GIRDER. Alexander White, an employee of the Fletcher Construction Company, fell off a. .girder on the construction of the new wool store being erected for Messrs Donald Reid on the foreshore this morning. He injured his back and his left leg, and was admitted to the Hospital at 12.5 this afternoon. White resides at 38 Bradshaw street. South Dunedin. CARETAKER’S FALL. A fall through the skylight yesterday Afternoon at the Commercial Bank of Australia, where he is employed as caretaker, resulted in John Dodds suffering from shock and two fractured fibs. He was admitted to the Hospital at 3 o’clock.