ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 28 December 1927, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

TOOK METHYLATED .SPIRITS TO EASE PAIN. (BY TI!LKGIU?H —VRKSB ASSOCIATION. ) CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 27. Unable to sleep and being in pain, Katrine Christina Easterbrook, aged 6l years, a widow, drank some methylated spirits late last evening, and died early to-day at the Christchurch hospital. Mrs Easterbrook had suffered from an internal trouble for some time. She told her son, who was called aibout midnight, that she thought the spirits might relieve her pain. Ho had his mother conveyed to hospital, where she died at 0 a.m. to-day. BODY IDENTIFIED. DUNEDIN, Doc. 27. The body of a man found drowned near Purakauui on Sunday has been identified as that of William Anderson Forbes, who resided at 15 Gamma Street, lioslyn, and who was camping alone in the vicinity of the township. A,CO DENT'S AT TR OTTING MEETING. AUCKLAND, Dee. 27. J. Shaw, the driver of Aanaris, sustained a dislocated shoulder in a smash in the last race at Alexandra. Park today. He was taken to hospital in order to undergo an X-ray examination. G Phipps, the driver of Black Lila, waitthrown heavily against the rails anti received bruises on one arm as wel. as being badly shaken. The drivers ol the other four horses involved in the accident escaped injury. It was F. Holmes, the driver of King Pointer (not D. Withers, the driver ol Great Actress, as previously telegraphed), who was thrown over the rails in the accident in the Grandstand Handicap, and was badly shaken. Withers was badly shaken through being thrown on the hard track when his horse fell.

A MARINE’S TRAGIC DEATH. AUCKLAND, Dec. 28. The inquest concering the circumstances surrounding the death of the marine, William Hill Woodruff, who met a tragic death on Sunday evening through falling from the dock of the warship Diomede on to a log fender, which was opened on Monday for the hearing of evidence of identification, is to bo resumed to-morrow. Woodruff’s father and brothers were all killed in the war, and he was engaged to he married to a lady in England as soon as his service in the Dominion was completer!. The girl who witnessed the fatality on Sunday was not Woodruff’s fiancee, as previously telegraphed. She was visiting a. friend aboard and was a stranger to Woodruffe, who was on duty at the time of his death. MOTOR CYCLIST HURT. TAUMARUNUI. Dec. 28. Hoy Grubner, a motor cyclist, eolided with a car driven by H. Simpson at Fanthorpe’s corner Grubner o-istsiiped a compound fracture of the leg and was admitted to hospital.