ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20500, 30 August 1928, Page 10

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

CHILD KILLED BY SHOTGUN

(Special to Daily Times.) AUCKLAND, August 29. As a result of the accidental discharge of n shotgun she was carrying, Edith Sagar, aged 10 years, was instantly killed at Warkworth after mid-day to-day. With her brother Ronald the girl had carried lunch to her father, a well-known farmer, who was working at Hepburn Creek, about five miles from Warkworth. On the return journey _ along the bush track she offered to relieve her brother of the shotgun he was carrying. In taking the gun the trigger became caught in a twig, the charge striking the child in the breast. Death was instantaneous.

A LABOURER’S DEATH.

(Special to Daily Times.)

AUCKLAND, August 29,

A labourer, whose name ie believed to bo C. Harding, was given casual work on the old museum site in Princes street this morning, and was fatally injured a few hours later. The man was one of a gang engaged in removing a steel girder and timber from a motor lorry. About half a dozen workmen were on the vehicle, and the deceased and others were on the ground. It is not clear how the accident occurred, but it is believed that the deceased slipped, and was struck violently on the forehead. He suffered a fracture of the skull, and died in the Auckland Hospital four hours later. The only clue to the identity of the man was a receipt in the name of Harding found in his pocket.

STOCK AGENT FOUND DYING,

(Per United Press Association.) CAMBRIDGE. August 20. Charles James Peake, a well-known Stock agent, about 55' years of age, was found in a bedroom of his home at Grey street, Cambridge, about 9.15 last night, with his throat cut. A blood-stained razor was lying about two feet away. Dr Ritchie was quickly iu attendance, when the injured man was just alive, but he expired almost immediately. The deceased is survived by a widow and family of two young boys and two girls.

CAR’S FATAL PLUNGE

WIFE OF DRIVER DROWNED,

(Per United Press Association.) ITAWKRA, August 20. That Florence APCalgum met her death on July 9, in the Manawatu River, as the result of a motor car in which she was travelling plunging into the river, was the verdict at the inquest, which was concluded this afternoon. The evidence showed that the deceased was the only passenger in a two-seater dosed car driven by her husband, John APCalgum, a former resident of Wanganui. After crossing the Manawatu bridge on the Alain South road at 2 O’clock in the afternoon the car swerved sharply, and, plunging over a steep bank, was submerged in the flooded river a few yards from (he roadway. The driver was rescued 50 yards downstream, where he was found a few minutes later clinging to a tree. Airs MT'algnm's body was not discovered until live weeks later, when it was found after another fresh in the river about 250 yards from the point of the ear's plunge. A mechanic gave evidence that the steering gear of the car was in good order.

A SUDDEN DEATH. (Special to Daily Times.) CHRISTCHURCH, August 29. A single man named George AI. Clarke. 07 years of age. who lived at Alill Road Farm, Styx, dropped dead at 0.50 o’clock this morning.