ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 4 August 1925, Page 10

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

INFANT’S BODY FOUND. (.BY TEUFGBArjr—PRKSS ASROCIAT'ON -CHRISTCHURCH, Aug. 3. A sack containing tlie body of a welldeveloped male child was found on the bank of the Heath cote- river near Beckenham to-day . The indications are that the body had only recently been placed 1 in the sack. ANOTHER SHUNTING ACCDENT. PALMERSTON N., Aug. 3. A railway shunter, Thomas Carmichael, was caught between the wire tail rope and a waggon this morning and was crushed, sustaining a compound fracture of the thigh. He was sent to hospital, where lie died tonight at 5.30. He was a married man with three children, find was 30 years of age. UNIDENTIFIED BODY FOUND. OIIAKUNE, Aug. 3. Tlie remains of a badly decomposed male were found hanging" in the lower branches of a tree bordering tlie creek at Oliakune yesterday afternoon. It is thought to be the remains of a man named Wilson, who disappeared twelve months ago. The body was evidently carried along by the inte floods and caught in the trees. An inquest was held riiis afternoon, but no one was able to identify the body. A coincidence is that the remains were found exactly twelve months since- the disappearance of Wilson. SUICIDE NEAR TIMARU. TIMARU, Aug. 3. The body of F. W. Foley, late manager of the New Zealand Express Company here, was found in a plantation thirty miles from Tiniaru with a rifle alongside and a ballet wound in the temple. At- the inquest to-day a verdict was returned that death was caused through a bullet wound self-inflicted while deceased was in a depressed state of mind. A MINING ACCIDENT. GREYMOUTH, Aug. 3. An inquest was held at Roa to-day concerning the death of George Robert Smith, aged 44, single, a miner, who was killed at 2.30 p.m. on Saturday by a fall of coal at the face of the Roa colliery.

Deceased’s mate, John Devlin, said that, lie lieard the timber snapping, and calling Smith he rushed for safety. He found the fall had buried Smith, who had evidently tripped. The fall* extinguished the lights. When unearthed after fifteen minutes Smith was dead. They were w-orking out from a timbered roof, but. only had to retreat about six feet to safety' under it. Witness thought electric safety lights would have given a better' chance of getting clear than the oil. lamps used. Deputy-inspector Smyllie deposed that he visited the place half an hour previously and’ judged! that it was safe.