KILLED IN QUEEN-STREET.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14867, 19 December 1911, Page 7

KILLED IN QUEEN-STREET.

NATALITY DURING .GALE.' ' 1 hoarding falls ON a youth. f1 HKAVr piece of hoarding, about 20ft iSlfc length and Bft in height,, in front of llfc Sa new Post Office buildings in Queen- j Wfaeel, failed to resist the force of the I'fuid yesterday morning, and fell with a 'jjjish on top of three pedestrians with f^Nrfatal result. Leslie Kenneth Angus, aged 17 years, '■ifllrtii killed instantaneously, while a young S'*'mw? named Frank Morris was severely cut about the face and scalp. The third, ■ » boy, escaped practically unhurt from ■ beneath the debris. The accident oc-?->v urrcd at about 10 o'clock, when the wind >M VBS blowing very hard, and clouds of P-fjust &re Hying i' all directions. The hoarding, which seemed top-heavy with ' advertising hoards, broke from its supIt ports without warning, and wedged tho head of Angus against a wooden railing, $4 dividing the footpath from the roadway. When he was released a medical man Iff! found that life was extinct, the youth's neck having been broken, and his face t bruised and cut. Tho body was removed to tiia morgue by the police. Morris' experience was an unenviable one ''and he had a narrow escape from death. Tho weight of the hoarding fell more on his shoulders than on his head, je;l ho managed to partly support it until li Jiis release . when ho fainted. His injuries vm so serious that ho was immediately .M amoved to the hospital. ffjtffi Tho deceased was employed as a tJeancr in the Auckland Railway engine iheds, and had been absent from work for a couple of days, being due to resume his duties at 4.30 o'clock yesterday afterI w noon. He resided in Wootton Road, " Remueru. •An inquest will bo opened by the Coroner at tho Criterion Hotel at 11.30 o'clock this morning. After evidence of : identification has been taken the inquest will bo adjourned. ffiiiyte?.'-''