ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS
SLEEPWALKING FATALITY. Fatal injuries were received _ by Henry John Thomas Kearns, a miner, of Deep Creek, aged 65, when he fell 15ft from the top window of the Canvas Town Hotel at 5.30 yesterday morning (states a Blenheim message). Although his kg was fractured he managed to craw] back to the door of the hotel and arouse the occupants. He was brought to hospital and died a few hours later. It is thought that the accident was due to sleepwalking. BURNED BY PETROL. When some petrol ingnited at the International Harvester Company’s premises yesterday afternoon Maurice Beale suffered burns to his right hand and was admitted to the Hospital, at 3.45 p.m. The injured man lives at 37 Atkinson street. INJURIES TO MOUTH. Injuries to the mouth were suffered by Ernest Orr, of 66 Queen’s Drive Musselburgh, yesterday when a steel rim flew up from a motor tyre which he was repairing at Messrs Cossens and Black’s and struck him in tho mouth. He was admitted to the Hospital at 4.30 p.m. KILLED BY FALL OF GRAVEL. An Association message from Greymouth states that the police have been advised that James Patrick Dugan (40) was killed by a fall of gravel while working at Cass yesterday. It is believed he has relatives at Southbridge.
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Evening Star, Issue 23219, 18 March 1939, Page 14
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