DEATH AFTER DANCE

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 April 1936, Page 7

DEATH AFTER DANCE

MOTOR CYCLE CRASH ONE KILLED-FIVE INJURED [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] PALMERSTON NORTH. April 17. A shocking accident occurred on the Rangicikei line, near Awahuri, after midnight this morning, when a motorcycle collided with a. party of voting people returning home from a dance, one girl being killed and one injured, and four young men injured, two gravely. The victims are: — Dead: Merle Campbell, 1-6, daughter of A. F. Campbell, farmer, Awahuri. Injured seriously: William Richard Paul, 20, son of F. Paul, farmer, Rangitikei Line, head injuries, condition critical. Jack Telford, 19, farm hand, employed on the Rangitikei Line, head injuires, condition critical. L. Ewart, 19, farm hand, employed on the Rangitikei Line, head injuries, serious. Jack Bracken, 20, living at Awahuri, abrasions, possible back injuries. Dulcie Campbell, 17. facial abrasions.

The Misses Campbell, in company with another sister, Dorothy, accompanied by Bracken, after attending a dance at Awahuri, were walking home on the left sid-3 of the road, when they were overtaken by a motor-cycle, on which were Paul, Telford, and Ewart. The pedestrians were walking in pairs, Bracken and Dulcie Campbell beingin front of M'srle and Dorothy Campbell. The motor-cycle swept Merle away, killing her practically instantaneously, and missing Dorothy Campbell by inches. She escaped unhurt. Bracken and Dulcie were carried off their feet over the bank at the edge of the road, and both were injured. Meanwhile, the motor-cycle crashed, causing injuries to the riders. An ambulance and a doctor were called to the scene, and the three motorcyclists were removed to the hospital, Bracken entering the institution this morning, for treatment.

MAORI KILLED. HAMILTON, April 16. Mokai Penetito, aged 47, of Waharoa, who was struck by a passing motorcar while riding on a lorry between Putaruru and Tirau on Monday, succumbed in the Waikato Hospital to his injuries. 'WATERSIDER INJURED. NEW PLYMOUTH, April 17. Caught between two rakes of trucks on the Moturoa wharf last night. E. Shaw, St. Aubyn Street, watersideworker, received two extensive gashes to the right thigh. After attention, the injured man was admitted to the hospital. His condition to-day was satisfactory. This is the second accident within a month, that watersiders have received leg injuries by being struck by trucks. W. Lowrie was hit as he was walking to work on March 17, and his left leg had to be amputated.

SUICIDE VERDICT WELLINGTON, April 17. At the inquest on Percival John Joseph Kilmartin, of Alice Street, Lower Hutt, a verdict was returned of death from shock and haemorrhage, the result of having cut his own throat. CHILD’S FATAL SCALDS A DOCTOR’S ADVICE. WELLINGTON, April 17. Coroner Gilbertson held an inquept on the child, Mary Cameron, aged six, who died from scalds. A letter from the mother, who was too ill to attend stated that she was preparing to scald* the milking utensils, and had poured boiling water into a bucket standing inside the kitchen door. While her attention was diverted elsewhere, she heard the upsetting of the bucket, and the scream of her child, who must have rushed inside and upset it. The Coroner remarked it was another case of the danger of leaving boilingwater within reach of children, but it was an ordinary accident, and no blame was attachable. Doctor ( Scholefield said that when a person was burned, and was to be takeij to hospital, it was a bad thing to put oil on the wounds which had to be removed before the patient could he treated. The best, thing to do was to make the wounds as airtight as possible with clean rags.