ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12429, 19 February 1901, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

[Pee Press Association.] NAPIER, Feb. 18. . An inquest was held at Clive to-day on the body of Joseph Davis, labourer, who was killed on Friday evening last by a dray falling on him. A verdict of accidental death was returned. A baby girl, sixteen months’ old, the daughter of Mr Thomas Davidson, Oran Gorge, Woodbury, was accidentally strangled on Friday might last. On Thursday evening, while the mother was attending to household duties, the child fell out of bed l , and on Friday evening before going out to attend the cows Mrs Davidson used extra care to prevent another fall. She fastened a sash to the back of the child’s night-dress, and tied the other end to the bed. While attending to the cows Mr and Mrs Davidson took turns in going to' the bedroom, window to hear if the baby was awake. When they entered the bedroom, shortly after their return to the house, they found the child hanging from the bed dead, the sasu, with the weight of the child on it, having tightened the neckband of the nightdress. It was not found necessary to hold an inquest. Mr A. Partridge, a clerk in the office of Messrs M’Clatohie and Co., coal merchants, met with an accident yesterday. He was riding his bicycle along High Street, and came up with a dray full of gravel travelling in the same direction. The driver did not see Mr Partridge approach, and jumped off the dray at the very moment whtn the cyclist was passing, and the two collided. The cyclist was knocked olf his machine, and sustained a. rather severe cut on the chin, which had to bo stitched, and a shaking.