ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18556, 17 May 1922, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

CHILD’S SHOCKING ACCIDENT. j' (Fn United Press AbooctaxtowJ WELLINGTON, May 16. 1 A shocking accident on the wharf i»*<s dieted serious injuries on a little girl named Pryllia Dean, aged nine. , A piece of aMt 1 projecting from a lorry caught her on the neck, crushed her against the-sn©d t ana- .j; badly gashed her throat Her oondiUoa » serious. RAILWAY CROSSING FATALITYCHRISTCHURCH, May XB. Ernest Arnold, single, aged 62 year*,‘jrtp J killed at Sookbum ;railway crossing ,by we 4 south express to-night. Arnold, who fered severely from rheumatism, was walk, ing across the crossing, and evidently Hailed ' to see the incoming train,owing to wim>’ and rain. The express was 20 minutee late, , which probably caused Arnold to keep •> less careful watch. ' , ° _____ FIREMAN’S DEATH , INQUEOT ADJOURNED. . : f OHRISTCHUROH May 16. v£ An inquest oonoeming the death : Charles Clarke, aged 33 yean, a firamantij on the steamer Whan gape, who died ,'jrt'3 Christchurch Hospital on ,_ww?S opened before the Coroner (Mr H. Y. ; dowaon, S.M.) to-day. - -<■ Dr C. J. Campbell, senior house at Ghristahunok Hospital,, said 'deceased i ; s was admitted to the hospital _in ■ & mwi-h conscious condition. He detailed an ; amination which failed to give any’ to bis exact complaint. His condition | not alter, and tin doctors were at a lose "5 to decide what was wrong with him. Xtr, occurred .to witness that he might howeH been drugged The only treatment mw'?him was for his bowels. He died early on s Sunday morning. ? Dr Reay, house surgeon, oorrobocated ’ the evidence of the, previous witness. 13m condition of deceased, be said, was con*;} sistent with drugging. -1 William Monday, a fireman on ,: steamer Eaikoura, said deceased ',wsjt~’» '; single man. He was a returned ■ soldier, and had been gassed. Since his return he i had not :been in good health. As a post-mortem operation bad fanea to show the cause of death a miorosoopmeaf' •' amination of th© brain will be made. That inquest was accordingly adjourned, -:i -