ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17264, 4 September 1916, Page 11

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

FALL FROM A HORSE. FATALITY AT Emmerson Bucktin, aged forty-thw* years, residing at Wooaoud, tell Horn hh horse on Saturday evening, at .even, and -stained » serious fracture of the skull. We was Sm ned bv Dr Pinfold who. ordered Brok Sn's removal to the Ohmtclnrrch Hospital. Ho was conveyed by motoi£r and was admitted in 'an. unconscious condition. An operation tra* Srmed, but Bucktin never regained SSousncss and died yesterday morit--111 An inquest was opened at the Hospital yesterday afternoon by the Coroner, "Mr H. W. Bishop. "j'lie bodv was formally identified by Christopher Buck tin, a cousin ot the deceased. _ ~. „,, Dr Johnson that Bucktin was -admitted suffering from a depressed compound fracture of the skull, .and had died from the result of his injuries The inquest was adjourned to -.dU P rn. the following, day, at the Courthouse, to enable a Kaiapoi witness to attend. . , , , Bucktin was unmarried, and at t lie time of the accident wa« driving Cattle 'to Cheviot. CUT WITH A CHISEL. On Saturday afternoon Mr It. J. AYhv.te, representative tor Messrs Booth,'Macdonald and Co., Ltd., at Ashhurttm, was engaged removing a ring from n. wheel when the. chisel lie was using flew un, causing a deep cut under his left eye which necessitated medical aid. S "ICIDES IN AUCKLAND. [Vxn Prrss Association.] AUCKLAND, September 2. At an inquest ou George Betts, carpenter, aged forty-five, who was found dead in Pnrnell, a verdict of suicide by poison while- of unsound mind was returned. An inquest was held on Mary J ami, single, aged twenty-one,, who died in the hospital. Tho verdict was suicide by poison, caused by depression, the result of illness.