INQUEST HELD

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 17, 18 December 1935, Page 2

INQUEST HELD

accidental death. OCCURRENCE TV AERODROME. An inquest nns > leid the Coroner Mr.A. J ' "Sent at the death, following an accic , the Milson Aerodrome of J atnU ence Moore, aged 48, or Street, on December 13 iven Evidence of identification vas g by John Charles Moore, a son of North, medica l _ superintendent at the Hospital, j ter ence that deceased died shortly his admission to hospital, m. P A)) the administering o restoratnes -A examination later shoved a <■ of the sixth right rib and a rupture of the liver. The cause ot death v a hemorrhage of the liver. Had he beei admitted to hospital an hour betoio deceased might have been saicd J •‘ operation. The Free Ambulance had brought deceased to the Hospital. Albert Thomas De Cleene, employed by the Public Works Department at the aerodrome, said he had been policing with deceased at about ll.ova.m. when ail accident occurred mtne. knew that deceased had fallen on to a barrow which lie was wheeling. D ceased complained of pains several minutes after the occurrence, and witness was informed later that the ambulance had been sent for t the ambulance arriving about .35 minutes later. It was on the ground about six minutes and it would take five minutes or so to reach the Hospital, it felt, the ground about 12.15 p.m. Leonard Charles Lee, who had also been working with deceased, said he saw on the ground a loop of wire which could have caused deceased to trip. When witness heard deceased moaning deceased was on his knees at the barrow. The man who was sent for the ambulance would have had “quite a fair step” to reach a telephone, and the ambulance was not unduly long in arriving. Norman S. Davies, the foreman of the job, said that, considering the time the ambulance would have been called, he thought it had been quite quick in arriving. The telephone was at the aerodrome hangar, about 20 chains away. "Witness was questioned hv Mr J. P. De Cleene, who appeared on behalf of Mrs Moore, and said that it was not usual to have a telephone on Public Works undertakings of that nature. From the place where deceased was injured to witness’s office and from tlic same point to the telephone at the hangar would bo about the same distance. The finding of the Coroner was that deceased’s death was caused by a hemorrhage due to a rupture of the liver, caused through iniurics accidentally received. It seemed quite clear from the evidence that the cause was accidental. There were no suspicious circumstances surrounding the case whatsoever. There was no conclusive evidence that deceased had tripped, but the evidence pointed to his having tripped over some wire. The medical evidence revealed that it might have been possible to have saved deceased’s life had he been admitted to the Hospital immediately after the accident, but that appeared to him, said the Coroner, to have been impossible under all the circumstances. There did not appear to be any evidence of undue delay in having deceased taken to the Hospital. The point had been raised of having a telephone at the office of the man in charge of the job, but in this particular case it would have made no difference as it would have been as far to tho office as it was to the telephone at the aerodrome hangar.