ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20765, 10 July 1929, Page 10

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

A FRACTURED SKULL. (Pee United Press Association.) HAMILTON, July 9. Max Pickard, a young man belonging to Hamilton, fractured his 1 skull through falling from a motor cycle on the _ Hamilton-Cambridge road this morning. The cause of the accident is not known. Pickard was found unconscious, and the hospital reports that his condition is very serious. CANOE CAPSIZES. ELDERLY MAN DROWNED. (Per United Pbess Association.) WANGANUI, July 9. Charles Brougham, aged 70, was out in a on the Wanganui River collecting driftwood this morning -when the canoe capsized and Brougham was drowned. The body has not been recovered. A FATAL COLLISION. (Per United Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, July 9. . Thomas Neighbour died •in the hospitaT yesterday following severe injuries received on Saturday, night when his son’s motor cycle, on which the deceased was pillion riding, collided with a car driven by E. Frost. BODY FOUND ON BEACH. I NuTCU Press Association.) WELLINGTON, July 9. The body of a woman about 30 years of age Mas found on the beach at Karaka Bay, Wellington, shortly after 11 o’clock yesterday morning, having apparently been washed _up by the tide. So far the body, -which did not appear to have been long in the water, has not Been identified. TWO' NARROW ESCAPES. (Per United Press Association., WELLINGTON, July 9. Two men had remarkable escapes from serious injury to-day when one of them fell from a height of 40 feet and the other from a height of 27 feet. The first accident occurred when George Hutchinson a pipe fitter, of Upper Hutt, fell 27 feet while working in the Lower Hutt Railway Workshops. Hutchinson, who is employed by Messrs A. and T. Burt, Ltd., was putting bolts in the ceiling near some machinery when he had his clothes caught by a machine and torn completely off him. He was then flung to the ground. The free ambulance was summoned and he was removed to the public hospital, suffering from a fractured left wrist and abrasions to the chest, neck, and right arm, and also shock. The man who fell 40 feet was G. Williams, of 11 Elizabeth street. Lower Hutt, and he escaped with lesser injuries than Hutchinson. Williams, who is a storeman at M’Duff's. Ltd., at the corner of Cuba and Dixon streets, fell through a skylight there at 3.30 p.m., and received an incised wound on the right eye and abrasions to the face and hands. FATALLY CRUSHED. (Per United Press Association.) BLENHEIM, July 9. A fatal accident occurred in the Seddon. railway station yard this morning, resulting in the death of John Mcrvyn Bosselman, aged 34, a farm hand. The deceased was unloading an iron bath from a railway truck to a dray when a three-horse team took fright and bolted. The deceased attempted to stop the horses at a gate, and was crushed against the gate posts, and expired almost immediately. It is understood that the deceased was a single man, his father residing at Nelson. KNOCKED DOWN BY MOTOR CAR. Two sisters, Queenie and Vera Hannah, aged 20 and 22 respectively, were admitted to the Hospital at 0 p.m. yesterday, suffering from injuries to their legs, received as a result of being knocked down by a motor car in High street.