ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20309, 18 January 1928, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

KILLED ON RAILWAY LINE. (Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, January 17. A man was killed on the railway line at Mount Eden, Auckland, early this morning. He was walking along the rails when he was overtaken by a train bound for the city at a crossing opposite the gaol. The engine was on top of him when he was seen by the driver. The man carried a worker's railway ticket. The body has been identified as that of Samuel Henry Elmore, aged 57. He was married, with a grown-up family. CHILD KILLED BY MOTOR BUS. (Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, January 17. Freda Mackie, aged 10 years, daughter of Mr and Mrs F. Mackie, of Te Aroha, was killed through being knocked down by a motor bus at Devonport this evening. The child, who was accompanied by her mother, stepped from a stationary bus and was knocked down by another passing bus and died a quarter of an hour later. SLAUGHTERMAN’S DEATH. (Per United Press Association.) CARTERTON, January 17. Richard Ambler, single, aged about 56, engaged as a slaughterman at the Waingawa Meat Works, died suddenly this morning when at work. The body was removed to Masterton for an inquest. INFANT’S DEATH FROM SUFFOCATION. (Per United Association.) WELLINGTON, January 17. An inquest into the circumstances surrounding the death of an unidentified male infant whose body was found in the harbour on Sunday morning was held before the coroner (Mr W. G. Riddell, S.M.). Dr Wright said he was of the opinion that the child had breathed. A string was hung loosely round the waist ar.-l neck of the child, but there were no marks of external violence'. The Coroner remarked that it was impossible to say whether suffocation took place in Wellington or elsewhere. His finding was that the deceased was found in Wellington Harbour on January To, the cause of death being suffocation from an unknown cause on or about November 15, 1927. DEATH FROM GAS POISONING. (Per United Press association. 1 WELLINGTON, January 17. Flora M'Murtrie, a 26-year-old tailoress, employed in Wellington, and living at No. 100 a Tasman street, under the name jf Flora MLean, was discovered dead on a couch in her room to-day. Death was caused through gas poisoning. It is not known whether the deceased has any relations in Wellington, but her father resides in Apiti, near Feilding. TWO FINGERS SEVERED. (Per United Press Association,’ WELLINGTON, January 17. P. T. F. Davis, residing at 150 Hutt road, Petone, to-day practically severed the second and third fineers from his left hand when using a circular saw. He was admitted to hospital MISSING WOMAN'S BODY FOUND. (Per United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, January 17. Missing from her home since midnight, Mrs W. Elliot, a married woman, was found drowned near the wharf at Le Ron’s Bay at 11 o’clock to-day. Mrs Elliot had been in bad health for some time. A search party set out at 6 a.m. to-day, and the body was found by the Lyttelton boat Orewa at 11 o’clock. The deceased, who was 38 years of age, leaves a husband and four children, the youngest being four months old.