FATALITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17320, 21 May 1918, Page 4

FATALITIES.

fP** UnIT«B i'IKBS Absooiatiom.) SI r, L. , „ AUOiiLAJMD, May 20 Mr iUchard Crowe, Secretary ol uie Auckiuki jiuuuaiion iioara, died siwaemy trorn Heart xaiiura ' . VVAJMUANUI, May 20. Inquests were heid on James itnowlea and lhomas Miller Scott, two men who were lounu dead yesterday. Ibd verdict in each case was that death was due to Heart lanure. Knowies was a returned soldier. He had several awards and ,decorut.ons from the Royal Humane Society, including the gold medal, the highest award given tor life saving. He rescued six persons trom drowning on different occasions at Napier. tk t INGLEWOOD, May 20. iße wife oi Mr Martin Mollov, ol Korito. was a passenger by tile express to Wellington on Saturday njght, and in endeavouring to alight while the train was in motion fell between the carriage platforms, and was drawn under. One lejr was severed above the' ankle and the other liioken. Mrs Molloy died a few minutes alter sne was extricated. CHRISTCHURCH, May 20. Private Murray, who arrived with a draft of returned soldiers yesterday, took a series of seizures last night, and died in die hospital at midnight. He was on his way to Hanmer for treatment. His father resides at Otaki. MAN DROWNED AT PORT CHALMERS. Mr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M., opened uest at Port Chalmers yesterday on the body of John Robert Sansom, of George street, a married man, 39 years ol age, ™ had a family of three children. About 6 o'clock on Sunday evening H was reported to the police that Sansom had been missing from his home since Saturday evening. _0n that afternoon Sansom, who was a boilermaker in the employ of Messrs • u e n?? rl <lnd Cook, was working along . Thomas Short and James Robertson, i!- i. engineer, on the trawler Waitaagi, which was moored at the Bowen pier wharf. The three men worked till about 5 o'clock, when the deceased was seen to leave the boat. At 6.15 ho was seen to return to tj l6 Waitangi by a who was stationed at a liosptial ship, and whom he had to pass to get to the trawler. Tliere was nobody on the vessel at the time. Sansom was never seen again. Assuming' that the man had fallen overboard, Servant Dougan had a launch search inn- for the body yesterday, and it was recovered about noon in the vicinity of the boat At the inquest Sergeant Dougan represented the police. iT,' 1 l he c ovidcnc T °. f Short nnd Robertson was tnat bansom had no neccssitv to return to the trawler, as the job was finished before they went homo on Saturday. His took °f D «? VCSSOl c ho had arranged t?° f ° r them on , Sunday afternoon. Tvtw ■ ° n 7 a ii° urn , cd the inquest till Friday m order that the evident of the wharf guard, who said he had seen Sansom rC D(£U ei W ? ltanffi - t* obtained. hnt wf• n « unp , for a short period. hU employs. d,S ° harg<Kl ° n the a^cal ° f Costs littio extra, but it's worth it o ret whisky as Wat ton's No. id!—