MANY ACCIDENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 May 1936, Page 7

MANY ACCIDENTS

DUNEDIN MEN KILLED TWO WOMEN INJURED [per press association.] DUNEDIN, May 10. A shocking accident which resulted in the deaths of two men, and severe injuries to two women, occurred at the junction of Princess Street south and the main South road, early on Saturday evening, when four pedestrians were knocked down bj’ a passing motor car. The victims of the accident were: Thomas Joseph Rogan, 48, labourer, living at 19 Argyle Street, Mornington, who died of injuries. Charles Nicol Stewart, 37, labourer, living at 11, Tyne Street, Roslyn, who died of injuries. Clara Kennedy, 11 Grange St., lacerated leg and head injuries. Her condition is serious. Kathleen O’Connell, 311, King Edward Stieet, fractured .left leg and head injuries. Her condition is also serious. The four pedestrians had apparently just left the kerb and were walking out towards the centre of the street when the motor car, which was being driven from Princes Street into the Main South Road, ran them down, carrying one of the men for a distance of a chain.

Rogan suffered a fractured left leg, and internal injuries, and Stewart received a fractured wrist and head injuries. Stewart died in the Dunedin Hospital at 4.50 a.m., to-day, and Rogan succumbed to his injuries at 8 a.m. The condition of the two women who were also admitted to the hospital after the accident, remains practically unchanged. The driver of the car, who pulled up after the impact, was arrested and will be charged in the Police Court to-morrow morning, with driving a car, whilst intoxicated, and causing the deaths of Rogan and Stewart. ACCUSED REMANDED DUNEDIN, May 11. John Francis Harris, 50, driver of the car which killed Thomas J. Rogan and Charles N. Stewart on Saturday night, was charged at the Police Court, this morning, with being intoxicated when in charge of a car causing death. He was remanded to June Applying for bail, counsel said that accused was a farmer with two properties at Moa Flat. He was a man of considerable substance and there could be no doubt as to his appearance. He added that the charge would be strenuously defended. Bail was fixed in two sureties of £5OO. The two women injured are now definitely out of danger. DEAD CYCLIST FOUND.

GISBORNE, May 10

While Mr J. C. Graham, a Poverty Bay farmer, was riding along Waimata Road, this morning, in company with Mr J. Alexander, agricultural adviser of Kempthorne Prosser’s staff, Auckland. Graham told the visitor of an accident that had occurred near a dangerous bridge some time ago. when a partv of Maoris went over in a car, and ' had a marvellous escape from death. The car was stopped, and the visitor looked over, and said that lie could see a motor cycle and a man’s body lying in the creek below. They hurriedly descended, and found the body was that of Josiah Harvey Watton, head shepherd on Make Station. The motor cycle and side car were lying close by. The bridge has no rails, and it appears evident that the outer wheel of the sidecar must have gone over the side, and the complete vehicle capsized down, the straight cliff about 25 feet into the creek. Watton was 25 or 20 years of age and unmarried. His parents reside at Tekaraka.

FATAL COLLISION PALMERSTON N„ May 10. Ernest Osborne, labourer, Longburn succumbed to injuries suffered, to-day, when a motor cycle he was riding collided with a. ear in the vicinity of Marton. CYCLIST’S FALL CHRISTCHURCH, Maj’ 10. L. Grimwood, a young man resident at the corner of Innes Road and Rutland Street, fell from a motor-cycle at Leithfield Beach, this afternoon, when the cycle struck a patch of loose sand. He suffered the fracture of both of bis legs and his collarbone. He also suffered internal injuries. His condition is serious. CYCLIST KILLED WANGANUI, May 10. As the result of a collision with a motor-car, driven Maori and containing a number of natives from the Ratana Pa, Joseph Arthur Massey, of Wanganui East, received severe head injuries, from which he died almost immediately. Massej’ was cycling along No. 1 line with companions on Saturday afternoon, and the car which struck him was travelling in the same direction. The driver of the car, who returned to the scene of the accident, was taken to the Police Station and detained. WANGANUI, May 11.

Arising out of the fatal accident to the cyclist, Joseph Arthur Massey, on Putiki Flats on Saturday afternoon, Barney Ruakopa, a resident of Ratana Pa, was charged at the Court this morning, before Mr Salmon, with recklessly driving a car, thereby causing the death of Massey. He was remanded till Friday, on bail, self £2OO, and two sureties of £lOO each. COLLISION WITH LORRY AUCKLAND, May 10. Fatal injuries were sustained by Harry W. Williamson, married, employed by the Public Works Department at Gordonton, when the bicycle he was riding was Involved in a collision with a motor lorry on the Cambridge Road at Hillcrest, last evening. He was admitted to the Waikato. Hospital suffering from grave head injuries, but died this morning. ■ KILLED ON RAILWAY. AUCKLAND, May 10. Found lying unconscious on the railway line at Papatoetoe Station, about 6.30 p.m., on Saturday, Mrs Louie Thompson, aged 61, widow, em-

I ployed as housekeeper at PapatQefoe, died pt the hospital a few hours later. From the nature of her injuries, it is concluded Mrs Thompson was struck, by the engine and thrown clear of the lines. ’ The first indication of anything un-1 toward having occurred was the discovery of a woman's shoe on the island platform by the guard of a train due to leave Papatoetoe for the city. He reported the matter to the Stationmaster, Mr A. N. Bassett, who made a search at the northern end of the platform, where the shoe was found. Mrs Thompson was then found Iving between the platform and the near line of the main south track. She had suffered severe head injuries. So far as has been ascertained, no one saw the mishap, or can throw any light on the cause of the deceased’s death. Mrs Thompson had travelled to Auckland on her usual weekly visit to friends in the city. Leaving Papatoetoe about mid-day, it was her custom to return on the 5.10 train from Auckland, which reaches Papatoetoe en route for Papakura at 5.42. No other train passes over the track where the deceased was found between 5.42 and the time she w r as discovered on the line. The engine of the train due to leave Papatotoe for the city at 6.35 does, however, traverse this track. The discovery of the woman’s hat on the track about IGO yards north' of the spot where Mrs Thompson was found, was made this morning. It is thought the woman may have been searching the track for her hat in the darkness, and had been knocked, down by the engine as it proceeded over the loop line.

UNUSUAL FATALITY.

WHANGAREI, May 11. Caught round the ankles by a flying wire, and dragged along a. bitumen road for the distance of a chain, Mrs Ellen McKay, 37, with five children, had her skull fractured, and died at the hospital last night. Deceased was walking towards hei mother’s home, when a wire clothes line attached to one car towing another, snapped, as she stepped from the footpath. The loose end wrapped itself round the woman’s ankles, ana she was dragged behind the car. The driver was unaware of the tragic happening, and when he stopped, the victim was unconscious.

MACHINIST KILLED. AUCKLAND, May 10. Struck by a piece of timber at the Otahuhu Railway Workshops on . Saturday morning, a wood machinist, Alexander McLeod O’Brien, aged 41, married, of Te Papa, received internal injuries, which subseQue-ntly proved fatal. FOOTBALL VICTIM. AUCKLAND, May 10. In excitement which followed the win of the new Manukau senior team against Richmond in the League match at Carlaw Park, yesterday, Mr Albert Cowan, of Onehunga, founder of the winning team, died suddenly. Mr Cowan had just entered the dressing room to convey his congratulations to the members of the team when he collapsed. A doctor was called, and he was given every attention, but when taken to the hospital by an ambulance, life was pronounced extinct. The players and patrons were distressed when the news was confirmed, and flags were lowered to halfmast. Mr Cowan was horn at Port Chalmers.

CAR OVER BANK Head injuries and concussion were sustained by Mr. Alexander Renwick, 39, married, of Reefton, when a car which he was driving to Reefton on Saturday night went over a fifty-foot bank, near the branch road to Nelson Creek. Mr. Renwick, the only occupant of the car was admitted to the Grey Hospital, in an unconscious state, but his condition to-day was reported to be satisfactory. The car, which is owned by the GreymouthWest Coast Wrecking Company, turned' several somersaults, and was extensively damaged.

AUSTRALIAN VICTIMS. COLLISION WITH BULLOCKS. (Received May 11, 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, May 10. The death occurred to-night, of Arthur Boyneton, managing director of Wylie B. Jones, advertising agents, of Australia, and New Zealand. Boyneton and two other prominent business men were returning in a car from a golfing outing, early on Friday, when they collided with a mob of bullocks on the Parramatta Road, Flemington. Boyneton and his companions were all injured. Seven bullocks were killed. MISSING WOMAN FOUND. Miss Eileen Winsome Crabbe, about 35, disappeared from home at Callaroy, north of Manly, six weeks ago. An intensive search was made without result. Her relations feared she had met her death. A youth, to-day, wandering in the bush in the vicinity of Narrabeen Lake, three miles beyond Callaroy, saw what lie thought was the body of a woman on the bank of the lake. He reported the matter to the police, who found the woman still alive, ter- • ribly emaciated, clothed in tatters. She was unable to account for her movements. It is reported she is a former New Zealander. The country where the woman was lost Is very rough, with thick scrub. Throughout the six weeks she wandered aimlessly exposed to storms. She slept in the open.

She said that she ate a few crusts of bread on the day she was lost, but since then had been living on water. Apparently she was in ill-health when she disappeared. LAUNCH ON FIRE.

Three men and a woman had an exciting experience at Botany Bay, today, when a launch afired. The men were seriously burnt. The woman jumped into the water. All were rescued and taken to the hospital. BROTHERS MISSING (Recd. May 11, Noon) SYDNEY, May 11. Two brothers, Harold Thompson, 36, solicitor, and Alan Thompson, 32, factory manager, have been missing in mysterious circumstances since Saturday morning. They set out in a motor launch on a fishing trip up the Hawkesbury River, and have not been seen since. Features which add to the mystery ‘ are the facts that their boat was