ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIV, Issue 16198, 27 March 1913, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

[Per Press Association.] ' TIMARU, March 26. Alfred Shepherd,.aged twenty-three, who has been acting as manager of his father’s farm at Sutherland, was found dead in the orchard on Tuesday from a gunshot wound in the head. At the inquest no evidence was given as to how the shot was fired, and a constable stated that the gun might have caught in the trees. An open verdict ivas returned.

INVERCARGILL, March 26. A well-known resident at Stewart Island, Mr James R. Thompson, was fatally gored by a cow on Tuesday. He left homo in the morning to bring in the cows, and, not returning, a search was instituted and his dead body was found in a bush. Deceased was aged sixty, and was the father of Eri Thompson, tho vocalist discovered by Melba.

DEATHS AT THE HOSPITAL.

TWO FATAL ACCIDENTS

An inquest was held at the Hospital yesterday, before Mr H. W. Bishop, District Coroner, in regard to the death of John Brown, a cab driver, who died at tho Hospital from injuries sustained in an accident.

Robert John Hampton, a cab proprietor, stated tliat bo saw deceased alive at 3 p.m. on Monday. Deceased was sober. He had been licensed as a cab driver for twenty years. Francis F. R. Bust, insurance agent, described tho accident, and said that the deceased was in tho dickey of a cab, leaning over tho top of tho cab. The liorso had bolted. Deceased seemed to be trying to get a better hold of tho reins. The wheel struck a tramway post in Barbadoos Street, and tho cab fell to pieces, and the deceased was thrown out. A verdict was returned that deceased diod from injuries accidentally sustained owing to his cab colliding with a tramway pole. Mr Bishop also opened an inquest in regard to the death of William Kennedy, who was admitted to tlio Hospital suffering from injuries sustained by being run over by a cab. Evidence of identification_ was given, and tho inquest was adjourned until noon on Saturday.

A labourer named Eugene Donovan, twenty years of age, met with an accident yesterday afternoon through eonio timber falling on him. Ho was taken to tho hospital, where it was found that his hand was badly smashed. He also received a number of ecalp wounds. Thomas Coulter was admitted to the Hospital last night suffering from a number of scalp wounds sustained through falling out of a trap. One of the Territorials at present in camp'at Yaldhurst, a member of ono of the West Coast companies, named P. Stackpool, was admitted to the Hospital last evening. He was on his way back to the camp by .trail, when lie was taken ill. It is stated that there is nothing serious the matters critk him.