ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 25 July 1929, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

MOTOR, CYCLIST SERIOUSLY INJURED. (By Telegraph—Press Associatiau). TE KUITI, July 25. Percy Hallinan, aged 20, Yvliose parents reside at Featherston, Yvas picked up unconscious near Mahoenui on the main road on Tuesday night. His damaged motor cycle, which had smashed into the railing of a small -bridge-, was lying alongside. The injured man, yvlio Yva.s motoring from Wanganui, to Te Awamutu to visit a brother, is -notv in Te Kuiti Hospital with injuries to his head, and his condition is serious. The accident Yva-s not YY’itnessed, and it is presumed 1 that- the cycle skidded and worked into the railing. DEATH OF A YOUNG WOMAN. PALMERSTON N., July 25. Admitted to the Palmerston North Hospital from Otaki in a critical condition on Monday, the death occurred early yesterday of Eileen Mclnnes, adomestic, aged 22 years. After eY’i-d-once of identification had been taken this morning the inquest was adjourned until Thursday next, Yvlien the medical evidence, it is understood, will occupy the hulk of the hearing.

FATAL STREET ACCIDENT

AUCKLAND. July 24

Just after alighting from a tramcar outside his house at Morningside tonight an elderly man, Samuel Leathern, a bricklayer, married with a grownup family, Yvas knocked down by a butcher’s light van and killed. Subsequently William David Weller, driver of the* van, Yvas arrested on a- charge of being intoxicated while in charge of a motor-vehicle. THREE PEOPLE INJURED. CHRISTCHURCH, July 25. As the result of a collision at midnight in Oxford Terrace, betYveen a motor-cy-clist and a pedestrian, three people have been admitted to hospital. They are: Samuel Pickett, aged 69, the rider, and Elizabeth Nelson, (Single, a passenger, suffering from head injuries, hut not serious; J. Wilson, an elderly man, the pedestrian, who received a -severe scalp yvouihl and a fractured leg. His condition is serious DIED OF INJURIES. AUCKLAND, July 25. Samuel Richardson, aged 48, a single man, died in the hospital from severe internal injuries sustained through being knocked doYvn by a motor-car Yvlien alighting from a has tin Glen Eden last night. DEATH, FROM POISON. HAMILTON, July 24. A double tragedy at Hamilton on Juno 29, Yvlien Ernest Edward Lees and his wife were found dead from poison at the rear oi their shop, wan investigated at the inquest to-da\. 1 lie evidence showed that the couple- were in financial difficulties. The verdict Yvas that the husband committed suicide and that the wife died of poison, but there _ was no evidence to islioYv whether it was selladministered or not.