ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21214, 20 December 1930, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

MOTOR CYCLE FATALITY.

(Peb United Press Association.) HAMILTON, December ~19. A motor cycle crashed on the Hamil-ton-Cambridge road in the early hours of this morning while returning from a Cambridge dance. The driver of the motor cycle (Harry Arthur Hooper), aged 30, single, a news agent at Hamilton, was killed, and one passenger in the sidecar (Thomas Kelly, aged 26 a bootmaker, of Hamilton East, was admitted to hospital with a fractured skull. His condition is serious. Miss Horne who was also in the sidecar, escaped uninjured. YOUNG WOMAN’S DEATH. (Per United Press Association.) TE AROHA, December 10. The adjourned inquest into the death of a young single woman named Edith Pearl Fletcher, was continued to-day before Mr J. Motles, coroner. The evidence showed that before her death the girl admitted having taken poison in a stationary motor car at 11.30 p.m. while on a visit to To.Aroha from her home in Morrinsvillc on the evening of December 0. Her fiance, George Brodie, stated that the deceased had been worried because ber parents did not approve of her marriage, and she had previously threatened to commit suicide unless the family did not stop “nagging” at her ou the subject. The coroner found that death was due to poisoning, self-administered, while suffering from intense mental depression.

FATALLY CRUSHED. (Per United Press Association.) NAPIER, December 19. Henry Worley, an employee of Amner’e Lime Works, was fatally crushed this afternoon when working among the ruins of last Wednesday’s destructive fire. A huge wooden lime bin apparently balancing among the ruins slipped down and fell on its aide, crushing Morley. Ho was quickly released, but died in a few minutes.