ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXX, Issue 14982, 30 April 1909, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

[Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, April 29. A girl named Elizabeth. L. . Greenwood died to-day under peculiar circumstances at Pannmre. Tho deceased, who was under sixteen years of age, was a witness in a caso against a man named • Frank Tate, who is to he tried on a charge of having had improper relations with her while sho was undor age. A constable received a message this morning to the effect that the girl had suddenly taken ill, and on visiting found her in a very low” state. The constable at once summoned medical aid, but the girl died within ten minutes of Dr Barber s arrival. It is stated that the girl told an acquaintance that she intended taking ‘ Rough on Rats,” but no heed was paid to the threat. , • „ A sudden death occurred at the Kingsland Railway Station - this morning. Mr and Mrs Joseph Levet, residents of Hoko North, who had been in town on a short visit, were returning home and -were about to get on tho outwardbound train when Mr Levet dropped on the platform and expired almost immediately. Mr Levet was about fifty-six years of ago. [From Our Correspondent. l ASHBURTON, April 29. A telegraph lineman named George Waddel was found dead in bed at Ealing this morning, where he was engaged in work on the line. Deceased, who was a strong-looking man about fifty-six years old, had a wife and family residing in Moorhouse Avenue, Christchurch. The causo of deatji is not known, but it is probably heart disease. Constable O’Grady, of the Ashburton police force, had the body conveyed to Ashburton this afternoon, and an inquest. will be held. The body will be removed to Christchurch for interment.

On Monday night Mr T. H. Stocker, of Orari, was in his hut at the fishing camp at Rangitata when ho accidentally upset a kerosene lamp, 'saturating his clothes with the on. He had great difficulty in getting out of the hut, and by rolling in the damp tussock extinguished his burning clothes. Mr Stocker was taken to his. home and medically attended to. Ho i© severely burned about the legs and head, nearly all his hair being singed off. and one of his ears badly burned. His condition is now favourable. His hut and his motor-car were both destroyed. The hut was insured for £IOO and the motor-car for £4OO in the Atlas Office.