ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 288, 11 June 1907, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

ITOB PBKBS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, June 10. At an inquest to-day concerning the death of a woman who expired at a city restaurant on Saturday, the jury round that death was caused by pneumonia, followed by heart failure. There was no direct evidence of identification, but from a communication received from Masterton deceased was supposed to be Annie Hobbins. Napier, June 11. A fatal trap accident occurred at Petane this evening. A trap containing two married ladies named Marshall and the infant son of one of them was proceeding through a cutting near Waifoaiti a short distance from Petane, when the horse attached to the trap commenced kicking, with the result that the vehicle was capsized and the occupants thrown out. The baby was killed instantly, his skull being fractured. The child was ten months old. Inveroargill, June 10. The post mortem on Arnold James Kingsland, a boy who died under chloroform while having teeth extracted, disclosed healthy organs, and the doctors could not explain the occurrence of death. At the inquest tho verdict was death under chloroform, no blame being attachable to anyone. Wanganui, June 10. A serious trap accideirt occurred in Victoria Avenue this afternoon, resulting in serious injury to an elderly settler, Samuel Wilson, a resident of Mars Hill. As a result of the collision hew as thrown out, and sustained concussion. At a. late hour this evening he had not recovered consciousness. Auckland, June 10. A terrible tram fatality occurred in the city to-night, the victim being Harry Elder, a man of about 40 years of age. He was a painter, and resided at Freeman's Bay. It is believed he was a passenger by the tramcar which ran over him, and that he got off at tho corner of Victoria and Nelson streets, where the accident occurred. Ho was knocked down and dragged about twenty yards. When extricated, a work that took about fifteen minutes, he was found to be dead ,the body being terribly mutilated. A pathetic feature was that a son of the victim, quite unconscious that it was his father, assisted to extricate the body.