ACCIDENTS & DEATHS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10510, 14 February 1928, Page 2

ACCIDENTS & DEATHS

CROSSING SMASH CHINESE HURT (Press Association.) ■ ' WELLINGTON, Feb. 13. A motor lorry containing: three Chinese was crossing the railway at Te Papa when the engine of the lorry stalled. The engine of the train strueh the lorry. Two Chinese jumped to safety, but the third. Chan On, 23, was thrown about 30ft, being removed to hospital with a fractured leg. BOXER RILLED MOTOR CYCLE SIDE-CAR TYRE BURSTS (Press Association.) REEFTON, Feb. 13. Last evening a motor cycle ridden by R. Gilsennan and a side car occupied bv Richard George Pascoe. a well-known Greymouth boxer, somersaulted on B'ullor road, l’eefton, through the tyre of the side ear bursting. Pascoe was. hurled against a tree stump ahd sustained a compound fracture of the skull. He died before reaching hospital. Gilsennan was severely shaken. Pascoe, who was aged 2D years, was married, with three children. BULLOCKS STRUCK BY TRAIN. DRIVER SUSTAINS INJURIES LATER. (Press Association.) AUCKLAND. Feb. 13. Peter Buyer, a farmer at Takekeroa, was driving a bullock team across thy railway line when the bullocks were struck by a train. One bullock was killed and another badly injured. Bayer' was not hurt then, but later, when the bullocks were dragging timber, Bayer fell from a derrick used to raise the injured bullock. Bayer sustained fractures of the jaw, nose and back of the skull. P ALL FROM WINDOW. (Press Assooiation.; NAPIER, Feb- 13 A 13-vear-old lad Edgar Wilcox, fell from a window over 20ft high in Hannah’s building to-day to , the concrete yard below. He offered a scalp wound, and leg injuries, winch may include a fracture. When picked up immediately afterwards the lad was able to tell of what had occurred BATHERS LROWNIED (Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, Feb. 1.3. Archibald .Butler, 25, single, while bathing at Port Rose, near Invercargill, on Sunday evening, was seized with cramp and sank before assistance arrived. The body lias not been recovered. (Press Assooiation.) DUNEDIN, Feb. 13. While bathing in the Pomahaka river, near. Tapianui, Stephen Muslin, of Puekerau, aged 22, was drowned at 5.30 p.m. to-day. Deceased who was a member of a picnic party, incnhiding his mother and father, swam across the river without trouble, but soon after lie started on his return he shouted that he was in difficulties. A woman went to his assistance hut he sank before she could reach him. The body was recovered. RABBIT SHOOTER FOUND DEAD. (Press Assooiation.) FEEDING, Feb. 13.

Trevor Shannon, a well-known farmer at Waituna was found dead this morning, a short distance from his home with a gun by his side., The indications were that the gun had .been accidentally discharged while he was getting through a. fence. He had gone out with the intention of shooting rabbits. Dereased leaves a wife and a young family.