ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17317, 17 May 1918, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(Pee United Pbess Association.)

. CHBISTCHDBCH, May 16. " t u 1 'nqocst was held on the body ot Petec « John Morrisey, who died suddenly under . ;i an anaesthetic. A verdict was returned that ' death resulted from heart failure following an attack of lockjaw. "

A shocking: fatality ocacrred on " night on the railway line between Runanga t Ha Dunolhe, Ae victim being Mr J;u Weill, a well-known Runanga resident 5; When "walking to his Home along the lirid he was run over by the late train proceed-. -V m 5 10 Groymouth from Rewanui. Tne body »' was very much mutilated when found, ani J death must have been instantaneous. The ■?. lato Mr O'Neill was engaged as engine- ■/* driver at the Rewanui mine. He formerly was a driver on the railways, and a driver - at the mines at Denniston. j A fatal accident, the result of a panshot wound, befel a Maori youth, about v 18 yeans of age, named Norman Hunter, at Kaitaia on Thursday week. He had just lett Mrs Peterson's house ;iiter having had '% tea, carrying a gun that he had used <iuring the afternoon. The report of a shot was ■¥ heard,_ and the Peterson family went out to " investigate. They reached Hunter in time • to hear him say "I'm shot," after which > he immediately expired. The Superintendent of Polioe received a - telegram yesterday from Kaitangata, statmg that Alexander Gordon Sizemore, aged *''• •eight months, the son of Mr Gordon Si»e- ;: i more, _ miner, of Kaitangata, was found y I'm a t 6.30 p.m. on Wednesday. The child was put to bod in its cot at 4.45 v p.m. ;by the mother, who subsequently ; ; found him lying face down on top of the '» bedclothes at the foot of the cot. 5 Mr Thomas Thomson Paul, aged 86 years, 1 an old-age pensioner, was found lying on ' the floor of his hut at Roslyn on Wednee- .T? •ay afternoon in a semi-conscious condition. H The man, who was in a very neglected j I state,_ was removed to the Hospital, where ;>• he died later. Death being due to senile t decay, no inquest is deemed necessary. A man named William Marshall, who lives at Woodside, West Taieri, was admatted to the Hospital yesterday afternoon, • suffering from a fractured ankle. At the ji time of the accident ho was riding a horse, which stumbled and fell, throwing him to the ground and canising the injury men- '* tioned.