ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2074, 15 March 1922, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

FARMERS’ NECK BROKEN. (Per Press Association.) INVERCARGILL. Last Night. While engaged harvesting on his farm at Hcddon Bush yesterday, T. Cairns fell backwaids off a dray in consequence of his horse suddenly moving forward. His head struck the ground violently, his neck being broken. CRUSHED TO DEATH. AUCKLAND, Last Night. Basil R. Scanlon, aged thirty-two, died suddenly through being crushed, as a result of falling off a waggon, while carting logs for a mill at Tuakau. He was a returned soldier. CRUSHED TO DEATH. INVERCARGILL, Last Night. William John Harris, aged sixtynine years, a well-known farmer of Tetua, was killed through a motorcar backing over a bank and capsizing. The deceased was pinned under the car and when he was released, life was extinct. He leaves a widow and a grown-up family. AVIATION TRAGEDY. [By Electric Cable—Copyright.] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Wednesday, 2 a.m.) LONDON. March 14. In the presence of thirty thousand people at Turin, a Dutch aviator named Hans Larsen was dashed to pieces by falling from an aeroplane at a height of 4000 feet. Larsen was trying a new parachute, which failed to operate. A large crowd made an agonised demonstration, but was held back by mounted Royal Guards. SPORTSMA N S DEATH. LONDON, March 14. Lord Manton, formerly Joseph Watson, chairman of a famous soap firm, was thrown from his horse while hunting and died immediately from heart failure, in the presence of his two sons. Lord Manton took up racing two years ago. when he. spent £30,000 on yearlings. He owned Lemonora and Love in Idleness.