ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 180, 14 July 1928, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

[Per Press Association.)

George Cooper, a commelfial traveller, aged 48, with a wife and grown-up family, was taken suddenly ill at his residence, 131 Frederick street, Dunedin, on Thursday evening. His condition necessitated removal at 4.50 o’clock yesterday morning to hospital, where he died four hours later. An inquest was held yesterday afternoon before Mr. H. W. Bundle, S.M., as conorer, when the evidence of identification was given by a son. and the inquiry adjourned until a date to be fixed (lending a post mortem on the body.

Elizabeth Ester Bowman, married, resident near Rangiora, was killed last evening,in a collision between a motor-car and a horse and cart. The car, whii’h was driven by the husband of deceased, met in a headon collision with a trap driven by Ellis Walter, a lad. One shaft of the cart penetrated the windscreen of the car and struck Mrs. Bowman on the chest, entering the right breast. Death was almost instantaneous.

A motor ’bus collided with a horse and cart on the Hutt road last nicht. The horse was killed and a .considerable amount of minor damage done to the ’bus..