ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 May 1906, Page 1

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

[ill- ELECTKIC TEIECItAHI]. JTEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CimisfciußCH, May 16. I*o rd S K l" lqU ° St ?" Ule b ' od >' 0f hv .1 , ' Wh ? Was fntal, y injured •y.i> 7th, was hold ,|,i s afternoon. After KriT 1 a . v " r,!ict of acdd »Si ui.un was returned. A young man named MeGuinness, of \ est Melon, was badly ripped by a Z ■•a the Addmgton saleyardsto-day 'lie "mrnal nrihed at him, and iullicteda 4 h "i this thigh ih r c C or f()llr ilK .,, es Vn" u n • NAPIER, .May 16. DoII e lu ;, ,n( l. up - st °" th(l '>ody of Richard I « ' . IV r ? lur . ned a Hint I « met Ins death through accidentally falling from Ins horse. A death under peculiar circumstances occurred at the Napier Hospital yesterday. A man named .John Maclley was aditted to that institution on Saturday, m I en„g ~, ,„ concussion of the brain from which ho died yesterday. It appears that he was 'working n ( Wa.mohik., and on Thursday went on horseback to gel some lambs. "On Friday morning his riderless horse with the -saddle on returned to Waiohiki Pa \ •search was made., and Madley was found in the afternoon on the river bank only partly dressed. He seemed to he dazed, hut was able, to Walk on the way to Tara\i ~W lUlr eYr V - A - O'Dowd, who found i T •° y 'i ™? !>: V r lnet Mr D °nnelly, who detained U Dowel in conversation for some tune and when the latter went again to look for Madley he had disappeared. No trace of him could be found, but on Saturday morning it was ascertained that •Madley had been found and taken charge of by Constable Riordan and taken to the Napier Hospital. Probably Madley was thrown from his horse, but if so, where and when is not Known.

An inquest, was commenced to-day, but was adjourned for a week.