ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 179, 14 July 1927, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(Per Press Association.) Margery Brackhen Wilson, an artist, aged 28 years, of iGtl The Terrace, Wellington, who was stated to be in good health and cheerful when she retired at 9 o'clock on Tuesday night, was discovered dead in bed yesterday morning with a gas tube in her mouth and the bas turned on. An inquest will be held.

Slight concussion of the brain and injuries to her arms and chest were received by Irena Dellow, a girl aged 12, who cycled down a hill into an approaching motor car on the Main South road, near St. Andrews, South Canterbury. The giri was removed to hospital, but the full extent of the injuries to her arms and chest are not yet known.

John Bruce, labourer, a resident of Alexandra, was found dead about noon yesterday in a rear room of the Chatto Creek Hotel with a -22 calibre rifle beside the body. The licensee of the hotel heard a report and immediately investigated. Deceased was 55 years of age and had a wife and grown up family. The rifle was stored in the room by an hotel boarder.

While engaged at his work yesterday at the corner of Omahu and Raupare roads, a linesman named O. R. Merson, aged 23 y«*rs, working on the Hawke’s Bay Power Board’s reticulation, touched an insulated wire and received a slight shock, causing him to fall from his ladder to the ground below, some 20 feet. He was at once removed in a serious condition to the Napier Hospital. At noon to-day he was reported to be slightly improved, but his condition is still serious.