ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 25471, 30 April 1945, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

HURT IN CAR COLLISION. When two niptor cars collided at the intersection of King and Hanover streets on Saturday bight, _ Miss Marjorie Thompson, a passenger in one of the vehicles, received cuts about the face from the flying glass of a broken windscreen. Miss Thompson, whose parents reside* at the Public Libary, was admitted to the Hospital shortly after midnight. The cars were not badly damaged, and none of the other occupants was iujured. -.. THREE CHILDERN INJURED. Three children were injured on Saturday afternoon while playing, and- were admitted' to the Hospital. Patricia Alden, aged seven, of 7 Falkirk street, North-east Valley, fractured her right arm through falling off a wall: William Edwards, aged 11, of Ravensbourne, slipped against a bed and suffered internal injuries; and David Bacon, aged four and a-half, of 719 King street, badly lacerated a finger of his left hand. ! SUICIDE AT MOSGIEL. The adjourned inquest into the death of Alexander Oliver, of Mosgiel, was held before Mr A. E. Dobbie. S.M., sitting as coroner. After hearing medical evidence and that of the widow of the deceased a verdict was returned of death from shock and heart failure, the result of self-inflected wounds.