ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 206, 15 August 1927, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(Per Press Association). Margaret Williams, aged 76, was killed through being knocked down by a motor ear in I'atteson street, Freeman’s Bay, Auckland, shortly after 7 o'clock on Saturday evening. The car was driven by li. Sallery, of Herne Bay, and was travelling in the direction of the city. Another car was following that driven by Sallery, and it is thought possible this car may also have passed over the injured woman. A drizzling rain was fulling at the time and visibility is stated to have been poor. The injured woman was taken to the hospital and died on admission.

A fatal shooting accident occurred at Rotangi, Waikato, on Sunday, when a farmhand, Robert henry Smith, aged 24, was accidentally shot with a sporting gun. He was out duck shooting with his cousin, and Smith was climbing a bank when the gun discharged. The injured man was taken to hospital in a critical condition, and died the same evening. He arrived from Ireland last year.

David Alexander, aged 67. when walking aloing a road in Martinborough on Saturday at 7 fi.m.. suddenly collapsed and fell. W. Kina, approaching the spot in the dark in a car, did not notice the old man until the wheels went over him The deceased had been in feeble health for some time past. An inquest will be held.

At the inqizut into the death of John Diver, aged 68, who died in the Waikato Hospital under an anaestheic, the Coroner returned a verdict of death due to heart failure, the occurrence lieing unavoidable.

The body of George Murray, seaman on the Maheno, who disappeared on July 21, was found in the Wellington harbour to-day. The deceased was a single man and on the day of his disappearance was given a medical certificate instructing him to be paid off on account of ill-health but he disappeared without signing off.

A large motor lorry from Gisborne, heavily laden, crashed down 200 feet at Shaw’s Hill, Morere, near VVairoa, at midday. The truck was completely smashed but the driver escaped unhurt.

At the inquest to-day on Arthur Longjjottom, a grocer, aged 54, of Petone, evidence was given that accused had been in ill-health for s 'me time and had been depressd. On August 2 he was found in the bathroom with his throat cut and was removed to hospital, where He made good progress until bronchial pneumonia supervened, A verdict that the deceased died from this following wounds in the throat, self-inflicted while mentally depressed, was returned.

A contractor, William Charles Padgham, a single man aged 50 committed suicide by shooting himself at his residence in Glen Eden, Auckland. The body was found m the orchard with a gun alongside. The coroner found a verdict of suicide while in an oppressed state of n ind owing to the death of a brother in England. He was not in financial difficulties.

As the Manuka was leaving Lyttelton on Saturday night, a sensation was caused when a women who was waving goodbye to friends on the steamer fell over the wharf into the water. But for the smart action of the master of the steamer in stepping the propeller a tragedy might have occurred. The woman was rescued by her husband and a seaman.