MISHAPS AND FATALITIES

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 September 1934, Page 2

MISHAPS AND FATALITIES

BOY'S DEATH. [PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, September 6. A verdict that death was caused by his own carelessness was returned by Coroner Gilbertson at the inquest into the death of Leo Von- Keisenberg, aged nine, who was knocked down by a motor car on August 21. The Coroner thought from the evidence that the boy tripped and fell, and the car caught him when he was attempting to get up. He considered the accident was the result of the boy not paying attention to the car. FALL FROM WHARF. AUCKLAND, September 6. Suddenly leaving a young woman he was accompanying, Alexander Henry Shaw, single, aged about 30, went to the edge of the Queen’s Wharf ferry tee about 6.30 o’clock this evening, fell into the harbour, and was drowned within a few minutes. The incident was not immediately observed, but a constable who was on duty nearby climbed down adjacent steps in an attempt to trace Shaw, but the young man had disappeared. Later his body was recovered. Shaw, who was a traveller, lived at Devonport. FRACTURED SKULL.

NEW PLYMOUTH. September 6. Falling 19 feet from the top of a power pole at Tikorangi. to-day, John M. Butch, of Stratford, an employee of Taranaki Power Board, struck his head on a post, and received a fracture of the skull. He died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. WOMAN KILLED. TIMARU, September 6. An accident occurred on Kurow road, four miles from Duntroon, this afternoon as the result of which Mrs Geo. Stringer, wife of a farmer, at Otekaike, lost her life. Miss Green, of Kurow, was driving four lady passengers when the car left the road, turned two somersaults, amVlanded on the wheels in a paddock on the left side of the road facing in the direction from which it came. Mrs Stringer died before the arrival of Dr. McMillan, of Kurow. Mrs I 1 ergus McArthur, of Omarama, was seriously injured, and was taken to ! Oamaru Hospital. LABOURER’S 1 N.J URIES. HAMILTON, September 7. Severe spinal injuries, believed to have included a broken neck, were received by a farm labourer, George Bright, single, 51. A sledge he was driving, overturned on his employer’s farm at Ohinewai,,yesterday afternoon. He was admitted to the Waikato Hospital. His condition is critical.