ACCIDENTS & DEATHS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 10450, 3 December 1927, Page 9

ACCIDENTS & DEATHS

HEART FAILURE UNDER ANAESTHETIC. NEWLY MARRIED WOMAN'S END. , NAPIER, Dee. 2. Ait the inquest in Napier to-day on. Catherine Gertrude Mackintosh, who was recently married, tlie coroner returned a verdict, of heart failure whilst under an anaesthetic, the conditions being rendered worse by prior loss of blood due to haemorrhage. An operation was considered essential to complete abortion commenced by deceased.—P.A. ' MOTOR-CYCLIST’S HEAD-ON CODLISJON. UNE MAN DEAD, THE OTHER. UNCONSCIOUS. , TE AWAMUTU; Dec. 2. A fatal accident occurred about 19 o’clock last night on the Te Raliu road, two miles from,, Te Awamutu. Erie Storey, 23, a son of Mr A. H. Storey, a district farmer, and Nelson Jackson, about the same age. a farm hand employed by Air 11. Focke,. were both riding motor cycles. They apparently met in a head-on collision. When found about half-an-liour later both were unconscious lying on the road some yards apart. Storey was under his machine, which was smouldering. Help was quickly sent for, and as both were terribly- injured they were removed to Waikato Hospital. Jackson died practically cn arrival, and Storey is still unconscious.—P.A. .) KNOCKED DOWN BY ’BUS MAN DIES' FROM INJURIES. PALMERSTON N., Dec. 2. . The death occuiTed in hospital this evening of J. B-rosnan, .who was discovered unconscious at Bunny thorpe in the early* hours of Thursday s morning, suffering from concussion, tlie result of being knocked down by a motor ’bus.. Deceased was a- widower with two children.—-P.A. GUARD FALLS OFF TRAIN. ' DUNEDIN, Dec. 2. A : railway guard named John Crawford, aged 58 years, residing at 14 Alma street,. St. Kilda, was admitted to hospital at 6.45 this evening suffering from injuries, received from falling off a. train.—P.A. Who pays tlie bill for the injured worker? Consult the Standard Insurance Company for full protection. —-C. G. Bloore, chief agent; A. G. Seddon, local .manager.— ; (Advt.)