ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16569, 5 June 1914, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

DISASTER AT CYCLE MEETING. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received June 4, 9.50 p.m.) NEAV YORK, June 4. At a cycle meeting at Pittsburg, the motor-cycle of a competitor named Armstrong became unmanageable and crashed into the crowd. Armstrong was killed and a score of spectators were injured, somo fatally. BODY FOUND ON LINE. [Prat Pkess Association.] AUCKLAND, Juno 4. Tho mangled body of William Mumford, an old resident of Panmure, was found on the railway line near Ellerslie. He had evidently been run over by a train. SCALDED TO DEATH. [Per Press Association.] DUNEDIN, Juno 4. Walter Riddle, _ three years of age, died in the hospital as the result of being scalded. The parents reside in Momington. SUDDEN DEATH AT RAILWAY STATION. DUE TO HEART DISEASE. An inquest was held in the Morgue last night, before Mr H. W. Bishop, District Coroner, concerning tho death of A. A. Mitchell, a commercial traveller, which occurred early that morning. Albert Charles Chegwin, brother-in-law of the deceased, said that he knew him well. Deceased was sixty years of ago, and was married. He lived at New Brighton, enjoyed very good health and witness never know him to have an illness. Yesterday morning ho met the deceased at tho railway station about 5.42 a’clock, and he was hurrying to catch the Little Rivor train. Ho spoke to deceased, who was somo distance off, and was out of breath through hurrying. On the station, a few minutes later he met deceased, who said he had missed the train by a couple of minutes. He started to talk about it and then fell to tho ground. He breathed stertorously for some twenty minutes afterwards.

Dr Thomas gave evidence that ho was called to the deceased yesterday morning at tho Railway Station. Ho was then dead. Ho had made a postmortem examination of the body, and found tho heart diseased. The condition known as hypevtrophe, or overflooding of the heart, had caused death. The other organs were fatty, but wero not diseased. The extra exertion would cause the sudden death. Tho Coroner eturned a verdict that deceased died of heart disease.

INQUEST AT CHARTER IS BAY. At Charteris Bay, Lyttelton, yesterday afternoon, Mr H. W. Bishop, S.M., held an inquest concerning the death of Mr Richard Frank Bradley, a brother of Mr Orton Bradley, who died suddenly on Wednesday. After hearing the evidence of Dr C. H. Upborn, the Coroner returned a verdict that doath was the result of cerebral hemorrhage.