CHILD KILLED BY FALL FROM TRAIN

Manawatu Times, Volume LII, Issue 3575, 5 April 1927, Page 8

CHILD KILLED BY FALL FROM TRAIN

' Riding on Platform on Way to School ' \ * DEPARTMENT . WARNING UNHEEpED (Per Press Association). PUKE ICO HE, Last Night. The inquest concerning the death of Lily Isabella Reid, aged 14, a High School girl, who was killed by a fall from a railway train on March 31, was held to-day by Mr. B. IC. Lawrie, coroner - . A verdict of accidental death was returned. Tho coroner remarked that ho was satisfied the Railway Department had done its best to warn children of tho evil of riding on platforms. Only a few days prior to tho accident the traffic inspector reported to the stationmaster on the conduct of school children, travelling from Pufcekohe by the Thames-Auckland express and felt that parents should warn their children 'of the danger of riding on the platform. t The coroner and the railway representatives extended their sympathy tgith the parents of the deceased. OAK GOES OVER BANK. '.WELLINGTON STOCKBROKER 5 „ KILLED. ' CHRISTCHURCH, April 4. Mr. Alfred Montague Adams, a Weilington stockbroker, was killed when his car went over a bank on the road between Parnassus and Kaikoura on Saturday. Mr. Adams, who was on his way to see his mother at Blenheim, left - Christchurch at about 10 a.rti. He was alone in tho car and 'no one saw : i: ’ the accident, which occurred at about 2 p.m. , ’ t . Evidently the off back tyre burst, with the result that Mr. Adams lost 'control. The marks on tho road showed that the car skidded some distance and .eventually went over the hank into the Conway riverbed, a drop of about 16 feet. ,Tho body was found i later by two men. Mr. Adams, during the war period, acted as secretary to the Minister of Munitions, and received the 0.8. E. for services. At;an inquest, which was held, a verdict of accidental death was re- ■' turned. 1 Mr. Adams was well-known in Wellington, where he was engaged In business on the Stock Exchange. CONSTABLE KILLED IN COLLISION. DUNEDIN, April 4. At the inquest into the circumstance A surrounding the death -of Police Constable Malcolm John Clarke aged 25, who collided with a tramcar , while riding a motor-cycle - on March y 5, a verdict of accidental death wasl returned, there being no blame attachable to the tram' or motorman. OCCUPANTS LEAP FROM BURNING CAR. \ VEHICLE CRASHES INTO SHOP ' WINDOW. WELLINGTON, April \4. A motor-car burst into flames at Petono on Saturday night while being driven along Jackson street. The occupants jumped out’ and the car crashed through a verandah post into a plate, glass window ofPfatley’s grocery shop. ' With the assistance of residents It was pushed away and the fire extinguished by garden hose and extinguishers. Some fault in the alarm system caused the brigade to go to the Gear Co.’s works, and it did not arrive till later. CAR HITS POLE WHEN TYRE BLOWS OUT. \ WOMAN AND CHILD INJURED, ' AUCKLAND, April 4. A motor-car driven by Hubert L. A Jusy was negotiating a hill near Hently when a tyre blew out. Tho car struck a telegraph pole.: The driver’s wife had her left arm fractured and her face cut. by broken glass. Her nine-months-old child was injured about tho head, though not seriously. STONE STRIKES WINDSHIELD OF MOTOR-CAR. , CHILD SERIOUSLY INJURED BY SPLINTERS. CHRISTCHURCH, April 4. An extraordinary accident which may have serious consequences for the victim, the daughter of a well-known medical man, happened on Saturday morning on the Riccarton Road. The doctor, who was motoring into the city with his daughter, hoard a / crash, of which he took little notice until ho heard his daughter crying. Looking round, he discovered that the child’s face was streaming with Mood from numerous cuts, and that glass splinters were in her eyes. A stejne had struck the windshield, shattering It and flinging tho fragments into ihc child’s face. ’ The doctor at once drove to the hospital, where the glass fragments were extracted. Owing to tho swollen state of the nhiid’s eyes ho is.unable to determine whether the injury is likely to have serious consequences-