ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20586, 8 December 1928, Page 11

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

LiOY SERIOUSLY INJURED. JUMP FROM GRAFTON BRIDGE xo Daily Times.) AUCKLAND, December 7. _ After a lad of 16, years, named Henry Edward Ashby, had escaped from the Mount Albert Probation Home some time last evening, he was seen to fall over the parapet of the Grafton bridge about 2.46 this morning. He is now in the Auckland Hospital with ■ both legs broken and is suffering from other serious injuries arid shock. His Condition is regarded as grave. Workmen going home saw the boy mdunt the parapet of the bridge. They called out and rushed’ towards him, but before they could reach the lad he had gone over the side. The Newton police were advised, and found the boy in a gully near the centre of the bridge. Ashby had a marvellous escape from death. It is believed that his fall was broken cither by trees or by a small bank which projects near where he was found. _ It is understood that the lad had been in the Mount Albert Home and then went to live with his grandmother at Avondale, but was later sent back to the probation home. ' ..It was stated to-day that the boy had been difficult to manage. He had become involved with several undesirable associates, and his uncle, who apparently had control of the lad, had sent him back to the home last Tuesday. An authority at the home said that the boy was a very happy lad, and it had been a great shock to the people at the home to learn that he had been badly injured. A CHILD KILLED. RUN OVER BY. MOTOR WAGON. (Peb United Pbesb Associatio:PUKEKOHE, December 7. A fatal accident occurred in King street at 2 o’clock, to-dajf, the infant son of Mr and Mrs L. Pameroy, residents of Pukekohe, ' being the victim. The child ran across the street, and the §>hell Oil Company’s big petrol wagon, driven by H. Charleaworth, knocked it down and passed over the body, death being instantaneous. DEATH FROM BURNS. (Per United Press Association.) GISBORNE, December 7. Joseph Wi Rangi, aged eight years, succumbed to burns received through a lamp catching fir* in a house at Puha. The boy and a girl aged 10 weroalono in the house, the grandmother having gone out eelirig. The lamp exploded, setting fire to the bed clothes. The girl managed to put the fire out. She wrapped the- boy in a blanket and carried him to a neighbour’s house, and he was subsequently removed to hospital, where ho INJURED IN COLLISION. (Per United Press Association.) ■ PAHIATUA, December 7. William J. Feasy and John Watson, Pahiatua County Council employees, met with a serious accident las* evening a short distance from the town, when a motor cycle, with Watson on the pillion seat, collided with an Aard service car proceeding from Palmerston North. WatsOn fractured his thigh, and Feasy is suffering from severe injuries to his knee aud nose, t , , —^ : ~ . DEATH BY POISONING. , (Psa United 1 Pbbbs Association.) . HANMER, December 7. At the inquest on the death of Mary Pasker, aged 18, a domestic servant, the jury returned a verdict that deceased came by her death by poison self-adminis-tered when in a state of mental depression. A rider was added that more care should be taken of poison by station owners. It was stated in evidence that the girl got the poison from the storeroom. TRAMWAY MOTORMAN INJURED. (Per United Press Association.) WANGANUI, December 7. James Kidd, n tramway mbtorman, was taken to hospital to-night following a collision between a tram, he was driving and a wagon used in connection with repairing overhead wires. His injuries arc not serious. BLUFF LAUNCH TRAGEDY. 30DY WASHED ASHORE. (Per United Press Association.!' INVERCARGILL, December 7. The body of George Graham, whoso launch was washed ashore near Bluff on Tuesday,' was found on the beach this afternoon about a mile from, where the launch was discovered.