ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 18217, 3 October 1919, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

CHILD KILLED. Three little children were playing in Clare Road, St Albans, at about 11.30 a.m. yesterday, when a cart driven by Leslie Fleming, employed by Mr John Cock, produce merchant, of Papanui Road, passed along tho street. Fleming, in a statement made to the police, said that he first saw the children at a distance of about a chain, and he sang out to them to get out of tho way. Ho took no further notice until ho felt a bump and on investigation found that the ourt had run over a child. Tho mother of the child was quickly on the scene, and medical aid was summoned. The child was in a serious state, and was removed to the Christchurch Hospital, where it died at 3.15 p.m. . , Tho name of tho little victim was Sedgley Malmanche, a two-and-a-half-year-old daughter of George de Malmanche. of 47, Clare Road, St Albans, a tramway employee. An inquest will be held to-day. CYCLISTS COLLIDE. As a result of a collision between a motor-cycle, driven by William Wicks, of 137, Elisor's Road, Linwood, and a bicycle, ridden by James Inkster, of 26. Richmond Terrace, which occurred at the intersection of Hereford Street and Montreal Street at 4.40 o'clock yesterday afternoon, the cyclist was considerably shaken, necessitating his removal to the Hospital. MOTOR MESSENGER INJURED. A motor messenger named H. Waiters, of Tilford Street, Woolston. was admitted to the Christchurch Hospital at about 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, suffering from injuries to his foot and abrasions on his face and hands sustained in a collision with a motor-car, the accident occurring at the 4nterhection of Tuam Street and Colombo Street. DEATH IN POLICE STATION.' [Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, October 2. Rowland Bell, aged tlurty-uino. who had been arrested for drunkenness, died in tho police station cell, presumably from consumption or heart disease. i

FALL FROM A HAYSTACK. [Per Press Association.] DUNEDIN, October 2. James Parker, thirty-five years of age, a smgle man, fell from a haystack at Tuapeka Mouth last week, and a fork which he was holding inflicted a wound in his groin. Parker died in the Dunedin Hospital to-day. FRACTURED SKULL. [Per Press Association.] DUNEDIN. October 2. Alexander Murray, sixty-eight years of age, of Port Chalmers, died in the Dunedin Hospital from a fractured skull, which, it is understood, was the result of a fall from a vehicle. A WOMAN'S DEATH. [Per Press Association.] DUNEDIN, October 2. A married woman named Margaret Sullivan, forty years of age, employe ns a cook at the Captain Cook Hotel, was admitted to the hospital at 6.30 to-night, and died at 10.15. It is understood that death was caused by taking nomiK