ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20706, 2 May 1929, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

THREE INQUESTS. tPsa United Press Association.) HAMILTON; May 1.,*Three inquests were held to-dhy. In the case of William Andrews Wilson,-'’Of Raglan district, a. fanner, who WTis knocked down by a car in Hamilton, the coroner found that death was accidental, no blame being attachable to the driver {L. C. Buckenham); Poison wad found to be the cause of the death of James : Sinden, aged 70, of Pirongia, The poison '. was" self-admifiistered, ;; but " whether; by ' error or by ,intent waanot ascertainable, r .■ .... ;. ■ The coroner found that .Elizabeth Bales, , aged .70, married, of Prankton, died of heart failure, caused by arterial degeneration.. A post-mortem examination had been.held because ;of suspicious rumours. , BODY FOUND IN HARBOUR. : (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, , May 1. . Yesterday morning a railway ganger discovered the body of a man floating in the harbour, between Petone and Ngahauranga. The body was secured' and was. later removed by. the police to the morgue. The body, which is as yet unidentified, was that of a middle-aged man, about five feet’ six inches in height, and of stout build. He was clean shaven and slightly bald; was;wearing a navy blue suit and brown shoes. The bodyappeared to have been in the water for some days. v FATALITY AT LOWER HUTT. (Per United Press. Association.) « WELLINGTON, May 1.. . While unloading steam heaters at th« railway workshops at Lower Hutt, about 8.3 G o’clock this morning, four men i were injured through one of the heaters being knocked from a motor lorry and falling upon them. It was ascertained that a lorry load of steam heaters from Messrs A, and T. Burt’s warehouse had' drawn up in the boilermakers* shop alongside a railway line. While the ■ lorry was waiting to be unloaded a truck came along the line and one of the up- ■ rights, which was a few irifches out 61 plumb, struck a heater: and caused it'' to fall from the loriy.’ The falling heater struck four men, injuring them all. Those injured are:—Henry Cooper, ! an employee of the railway workshops, aged 38, who resided at 0 Moir street, Wellington; Joseph Saunders, an employee of Messrs A. and T. Burt, aged 52, who resides at 494 Adelaide road, Wellington; Harold Moon, an employee of Messrs A. and T. Burt, aged 47, who resides at 390 The Parade, Island Bay; Hugh Patrick Ingles, an employee "of Messrs A. and T. Burt, who resides at 25 Majoribanks street, Wellington. The injured; men were conveyed to the hospital by the city ambulance. It was found that Cooper had been severely crushed, and he succumbed to his' injuries, which consisted of. head wounds and concussion, at 2.30 in the afternoon, oauudeis and Moon were- also severely, injured, but Ingles escaped more lightly They .are all suffering from head in- ■ juries.