ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXX, Issue 10218, 12 December 1893, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

DEO WNED WHILE SLEEP-WALKING. [Pee. Pbess Association.] DUNEDIN, Dec. 11. Miss Margaret Craigie, daughter o£ a Henlaj’f axper, is supposed to have been drowsed ia the Taieri terry, having arisen from bed while in an, somnambulistic state. ■ ' Thomaa Whittingham, a chemist ia the Arcade, was found dead in his shop tonight. -He was nob seen about since Saturday, and .the shop not being opened, the police burst open the door, and found Whittingham dead, leaning against a sofa. He waa rather old, and is believed to have died from, natural causes. Yesterday morning a man named Patrick Perrans, a runner for the Lyttelton Times, met with a serious accident on the Perry road. He was thrown out of his trap on to hie head, and on his being taken to the Hospital it waa found that his skull waa fractured, and that he was suffering from concussion of the brain. He was unconscious and in a very serious condition for some time, but late last evening became somewhat better and passed out of immediate danger. On Sunday afternoon, at View Hill, while a man named Thomas Yelland was skylarking with another man he slipped and fell; and it waa found that his right leg was fractured below the knee. He waa taken into Oxford, where his injury was temporarily attended to. The sufferer was brought to the Hospital by train yesterday morning.