ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 19 September 1928, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

MAORI WOMAN BURNED TO DEATH. (By Telegraph —Press Association.) HAMILTON, Sept. 19. A ninety-year-old Maori woman named Ramgi Mauuu Wliairen oa, who wfas living alone in an old whare at To Mata, near Raglan, was burned to death on Monday night. It was reported that her nephew, living 100 yards away, extinguished her candle and fire before: retiring. It was not known till yesterday morning that the whare and occupant. had been burned. INQUEST CONCERNING GANGER’S DEATH. PALMERSTON N., Sept. 19. An inquest the death of William Sherlock, railway ganger of Tokomaru, who was struck by the main trunk express on the afternoon of September 7 was held this morning. The driver of the train, Peter Salter. said that the deceased wasi noticed on a velocipede 150 yards away. The train was travelling at from 45 to 50 miles per hour. He bfcw t>lie wliisit 13 and applied the emergency brakes. A hard wind was blowing the smoke back into the cab, obscuring his vision. The deceased got off, and was .apparently trying to get the velocipede off the line when the train struck him. :Other evidence was given that the deceased said that when trying to get the jigger off the line his foot stuck in the handle. , The coroner’s verdict stated tnat from the evidence it would seem that the onus was on a- ganger not being on the line when a. train was approaching. A verdict of d?a.th in accordance to the medical evidence was (returned.