ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16492, 6 March 1914, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

MAN FOUND DEAD. [Pxk Prbss Association.] MASTERTON, March 5. A man named Thomas Jackson, aged thirty-six, single, was found dead in bed this morning. An inquest will be held to-morrow.

A CHILD DROWNED. [Pan Press Association.] ‘ ;DUNEDIN, March' 5. The police, .received advice'this, evening that a childmapied- Frances'Eleanor Murdoch, :r aged4twenty, months,:-ivas accidentally. drbwfied.:-;- in ■ the Molyneux River this afternoon. .

A little girl' named' Winifred. Black-: man, four years of;age, residing m ; Caledonian - Road , • was attended at the outpatients’ ward of the Hospital yesterday for a crushed foot, caused by a cartwheel. having passed over it. F. Mundy, i - esiding at Fairly Road, while working yesterday at Parson s Monumental Yard, received a fractured thigh' through a piece of marble falling on him. He was taken to the Hospital, where his injuries were attended to. , Last evening an elderly man named Robert Kirk was knocked down by a vehicle in Cathedral Square. The police had him removed to the Hospital, where it was found that he was suffering from abrasions of the knee and face.