ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17319, 20 May 1918, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

(Pn United Pbess Associatioh.) WANGANUI, May 19. James Knowles, aged 56 years, who recently returned to Now Zealand after two years active service, was found dead in MLf aus boarding-house to-day. Death ia supposed to be due to heart disease. A mysterious affair was disclosed last night, when the body of Thomas Miller f xi' • Bu . lls > '"as found in a bedroom Hotel. Scott evidently entered the room unknown to the proprietor on Friday night, and locked himself in. ihe room was entered by the window last night, and the body, undressed, was found lying across the bed. A post mortem examination is being performed this evening. A fifteen-year-old boy named John Allan, living at 466 a Leith street, 'dislocated his shoulder while playing football on the Oval on Saturday afternoon. He Was taken to a admitted as a patient. # At 10 o'clock on Sunday morning a marned man named George Cook, apparently a resident of Goodwood, was admitted to tho Dunedin Hospital in an unconscious condiri on " appears that ho was found by Constable Fox at 9.30 p.m. on Saturday lying unconscious in Union street, Milton. Nothing could be ascertained as to the nature of tho accident that had apparently befallen him, and, after he had been at- a tended to by Dr Collier, he was sent on at once to Dunedin. Last night it was reported that he had regained consciousness, and was in a much better condition. Nurse Cochrane, one of the Hospital nurses at the Benevolent Institution, wo<"> tho victim of a- serious accident in the Glen-.-road last night. She was knocked down a motor lorry, which ran over both m-i* legs, and at tho Hospital last evening, where she was immediately taken, the extent of her injuries had not been fuliy ascertained. Apparently the vehicle which cawed tho accident proceeded on its way without stopping, and so far it has not been identified. A sad*fatality occurred at Queenstown on Wednesday feavs the Lake Countv Press). An elderly lady named Mrs Ailing, who had been staying at the Mountaineer Hotel for some time, fell from one of tho upstairs windows on to the footpath. Tho accident happened about 5.30 a.m., and when discovered a few minutes afterwards the unfortunate lady was in an unconscious condition. She nassed awav at about 12.30 without regaining consciousness. Deceased had been in ill-health, and., it is thought, she mistook the window for the door of her room. Tho late Mrs Avling was an old resident of Invercargill. but had been a frequent visitor to Queenstown during tho hist few years. A drowning fatality occurred near Tuatapore on Monday, 13th inst., whereby a child named Athol Smith lost his life. The little chap, who was nearly two years of ago, had been playing with other children near Boundary Creek. Ho was lost sight of for a short while, and a search by Hamilton's sawmill employees resulted in his body being found in tho creek, which nt that place is about 2ft deep. At tho inquest a verdict of accidentally drowned was returned.