ACCIDENTS AND TRAGEDIES

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 June 1940, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND TRAGEDIES

YOUTH AND BOY DROWNED [PEB PBESS ASSOCIATION.] ' WHANGAREI, June 18. It is feared that a youth and a boy were drowned at Waiparera yesterday. Ramsay Gordon Steel, aged 18, and Keith Jackson, aged nine, went to Lake Waiparera on bicycles, and when they did not return a search disclosed the bicycles and sandshoes at the lakeside. A small flat bottomed boat was missing. The boat was later found in good order on the opposite side of the lake. FALL FROM CRANE.

WESTPORT, June 18. Ernest Jackson, aged 22, employed as a fireman by the Railways Department,- fell 25 feet from a crane on the whari at Westport to-day, and landed on hehvy rails. .He was admitted to the Buller Hospital with a broken thigh, a broken leg, and severe head injuries. . His condition is improving. BODY FOUND ON ROCKS. CHRISTCHURCH, June 18. The body of Aircraftsman A. E. Bulman, a flight rigger in the Royal New Zealand Air Force, stationed at Wigram aerodrome, was found on the rocks at the base of the Scarborough cliff to-day. It appeared to have been in the sea for a few days. Bulman, who was 29 years old, and single, had been on sick leave for some time.

MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES. CHRISTCHURCH, June 19. How Aircraftsman A. E. Bulman met his death is the subject of intensive investigation by the police, who do not believe that he fell from the top of the cliff. Had he done so, his injuries would have been far more extensive than they were. Most of the major bones would have been bi oken. The result sof the preliminary examination by Dr. Pearson, pathologist, suggest that death was due to a single blow bn the head, which shattered a small area Qf the skull.

Aircraftsman Bulman had injured his wrist while working as a rigger at the Wigram aerodrome, and was on a month’s leave. He stayed apparently at several places during the past month, and police are investigating his movements during this time, at: dare seeking information regarding the people with whom he associated.