ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXX, Issue 14983, 1 May 1909, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

[Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, April 30. Percie Ilardie, son of Mi’ Bardie, of tho firm of Hardie' Bros., leit A simai this morning in company with a friend, named Upton to shoot game. Upton pot off the buggy and Hardie drove a short distance. Upton followed the buggy, which be round overturned, and Hardie underneath, dead, the death evidently caused by the capsize [Per Press Association.] GISBORNE, April 80.

A young ■ woman, named Edith M’Leod, waa admitted to tlio hospital, this evening suffering from a bullet wound on the light breast. She comes from tho Hotu district, and admits having shot herself with a pea rifle. Jealousy is said to have been the cause-. STRATFORD, April 30. Emmett Bovle, aired four and a half, 6on of Mr Thomas Boyle, schoolmaster at Pembroke Road was instantaneously killed vesterdav afternoon through tho accidental a-gun picked up by a neighbour’s child aged seven. An inquest will be held to-day.

An inquest was held at Ashburton yesterday, before Mr V. G. Day, coroner,' touching the death of George Waddell, telegraph lineman at Ealing, on Wednesday night. , The evidence showed that the deceased, who had complained of pains in his back, died unknown to his mates in the same hut. Dr Mullin said that lie had conducted a post-mortem examination, and had found signs of old-standing inflammation of the kidneys and fatty infiltration of the liver, but. the heart and lungs were sound. A verdict was returned in accordance with the medical testimony, that deceased died from imemia. A footballer named J. Murdoch fractured liis c.ollar-bone during the progress of a match at Mount Somers on Thursday. r