ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 22818, 29 November 1937, Page 14

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

FALL FROM TRAIN. Falling between the station platform and a line of carriages when she stepped off the New PlymouthWanganni excursion train while it was in motion at Hawera last night, Mrs Phyllis May Horn, of Hedge road, Wanganui, suffered head injuries and fractured ribs. She was admitted to the Hawera Hospital in a serious condition. FATAL INJURY. Fata] injuries were received by the rider of a motor cycle, Robert Harvey Durrant, aged 26, a salesman, in a collision with a motor car in Broadway, Miramar (Wellington), at 1.45 p.m. on Saturday. A brother, Carrol Ronald Durrant, aged 22, a compositor in the Government Printing Office, who was on the pillion, suffered slight injury to his lefti ankle. i ACCIDENTALLY DROWNED. At the instructions of the SolicitorGeneral an inquest into the circumstances surrounding the death of Wilson Angus MThail, who fell overboard from the fishing launch Madge on September 1 and whose body has not been recovered, was conducted before Mr G. D. Hamilton, coroner, at Foxton. The evidence showed that M'Phail was feeling unwell and must have tripped or fallen overboard after the vessel was moored. He was the only one on deck at the time. A lad named Alan Sim made a gallant attempt at rescue, and was commended by the coroner for his action. A verdict Was returned that M'Phail met his death by drowning. BOY DROWNED. Arthur Richard Schutt, aged 13, was drowned in the Hatea River yesterday. The deceased was bathing with two children ,named Tufnell in a portion of the river where dredging operations w«re rgcently carried out, and the bank shelves sharply to a depth of 25ft. The deceased was soon noticed to be in difficulties, and the Tufnell children_ran home f*r assistance. Mrs Tufnell dived in fully clothed to attempt to rescue the boy, hut was unsuccessful. It was impossible to find the body by diving, and grappling irons had to be used. The deceased was a son of Mr William John Harold Schutt.—Whangarei Press Association. NOT MISSED TILL DROWNED. An Auckland Association message states an inquest was opened this morning on Desmond Llewellyn Thomas (IS), of Avondale, who was drowned in Whan Creek yesterday afternoon. He was swimming with 14 other lads, and it was not until the majority had left_ for homo that it was found he was missing. George Heron, a resident of the district, searched the swimming pool and fognd the body. A doctor stated that the boy had apparently been dead over two hours. The boy was a strong' swimmer, and was popular in the neighbourhood. Hr had recently been apprenticed to a coachbuilder with the Auckland Transport Board. _ After hearing evidence of identification, the coroner, Mr Hunt, adjourned the inquest sine die. CUT BY CORRUGATED IRON. Suffering from a lacerated hand, a middle-aged man, Gerald Guy, who resides at 40 Douglas terrace, North-east Valley, was admitted to the Dunedin Hospital on Saturday. He had been cut on some corrugated iron at the Electric Power and Lighting Department’s workshop. CRICKETER INJURED. While playing cricket on the Oval on Saturday, William M'Donald, a young man. residing at 140 Fitzroy street, Cavershanq suffered a fractured nose and was admitted to the Hospital at 4.10 p.m. FOOT CUT WITH AXE. While chopping trees at Waitati yesterday, Thomas Ruddiman, who lives ;, t Brunei street, suffered a wound to the right foot. He was admitted to tbs Hospital at 4,3 Q r.®, -

ANKLE FRACTURED. As a result of tripping in the doorway of her home yesterday, Edna M‘Levie, a young woman who lives-at 14 Josephine street, Caversham, fractured her ankle and was admitted to the Hospital at 3.15 p.m. A FATAL FALL. Mrs Emma Hannah Borland (85), an old-age pensioner, fell 12 feet from a window at the Salvation Army Home yesterday morning and was admitted with extensive injuries, including a fracture of the left femur, jaw, and ribs, to the Dunedin Hospital, where she died at 4 p.m. An inquest was held this afternoon. HEAD INJURIES, David Nees, who resides at 43 Stanfield street, received head injuries this morning, when a ladder fell on him at Messrs Donald Reid and Company’s new wool store. He was admitted to the Hospital at 11.50. HAND CAUGHT IN MACHINERY. Jean Potter, an employee at Clark’s Laundry, had her left hand crushed when it was caught in an ironing machine this morning. The injured woman, who resides at 696 Cumberland street, was admitted to the Hospital at 8.45. Evidence that he had been suffering from nervous trouble was given at the inquest t,o-day on Charles Russell Smith, who was found dead yesterday morning at his residence, 298 York Place. Dr Newlands, who had been attending Mr Smith for some time, said that the deceased suffered from nervous depression, but he had never indicated that he would take his life. Evidence was also given by Sergeant Johnson (who conducted the inquest), Harold Laing Smith (a brother of the deceased!, and George Robert Prescott. The coroner (Mr J. R. Bartholomew. S.M.! returned a verdict that death was due to a razor wound self-inflicted while the deceased was in a depressed state of mind.