ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 213, 23 August 1927, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(Per Press Association). On Saturday afternoon the body of Lionel William Shaw, aged 38. was found in a house at 18 Vancouver Avenue, Auckland. It was thought he committed suicide, as there was a shotgun lying beside the body. Evidently deceased had fired the gun iiv pressing the trigger with his foot. The body must have been lying in the house for about four davs before t was discovered. Shaw had been in the habit of going next door for his mail every day As he did not call for some days investigations were made, and the bodv was found. Deceased had been living alone for come time.

John Holmes Hartley, aged 35 a carpenter, died yesterdav at Rangiora as a result of serious fliury through his head striking a nole while travelling in a motor-car. An inquest was held, and a verdict of accidental death returned.

An inquest concerning the death of Vivian Robertson Webster, the infant son of Francis Robertson Webster. of Anderson’s Bav, was held in Dunedin yesterday. The father said the chilld was twelve months of a"e. He had been placed in a cot bv the mother the previous evening, in a room bv himself. At 9 a.m. the mother looked ip to see the bov and found him all rifht Witness went into the room at 7 a.m. yesterday and found the child dead Dr. Fitzgerald was summoned at once. Dr Gerald Fitzgerald said there was an nication that it had been sick, and in witness’s opinion death was due to asphyxia. Deceased was annarently a perfectly health- child. The coroner, in returning a verdict according to medical evidence added that death was purely accidental, and that eve— -vnipathy must be extended to the parents in the distressing occurrence.

The corner of Browning and Hastings streets. Napier, was the scene of an accident yesterday that might have been attended by very serious if not fatal, consequences. A young lady had iust alighted from a tramcai when she was knocked to the ground by a light lorry, one of the front wheels of which passed over her Fortunately the lorry was brought to a standstill almost immediately and when the young lady wa B taken from under the vehicle she was suffering more from shock than anything else. However, severaj nastv bruises to (he shoulder and chest were inflicted.

The Superintendent of Police at Dunedin has received word that the body of Robert Duncan O’Hara who was drowned in the Molyneux River on July 23. was recovered on Sunday at Port Molyneux,