ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21360, 13 June 1931, Page 12

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

WOMAN’S DEATH INVESTIGATED (Peb United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, June 12. “I think every possible inquiry has been made, but there is not sufficient evidence to show what the cause of death was,” said Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., coroner, at the adjourned inquest concerning the death of Mary Lilian Evett Maude, aged '53, whose body was found in some thick scrub on the cliff over Long Bay on May 17. Evidence was given that when the deceased left her home in Mount Eden on August 23, 1930, there wqs nothing unusual in her manner. Shihad been in poor health for two years preceding her disappearance, and at times she had complained of palpitation of the heart and shortage of breath. She was in comfortable financial circumstances. She knew the locality where her body was found as she had stayed at thisummer residence of relatives in the Brown’s Bay district. Two doctors said that when fmmd the body had been exposed to the weather for some mouths Post-mortem examinations did not reveal any signs of violence and witnesses were unable to form an opinion as to the cause of death. MOTOR CAR FATALITY MAN KILLED IN WELLINGTON. (Pee United Press Association.) WELLINGTON. June 12. A man who was struck by a motor car in Jervois quay early last evening was so badly injured that he died in the ambulance on the way to. hospital. Ho had not been identified last evening, although the initials “R. H. B.” were marked on the inside of his hat, and his gold wristlet watch bore the inscription. “To T. Barber from Tycho friends. 6/8/15.” The accident occurred about 6.40 n.m. toward the side of Jerybis quay remote from, and almost opposite, Harris street. Francis Gregory Galvin, aged 65, of Coromandel ■ street, manager of Rubber Dis tributors, Ltd., was the driver of the car. He was going south along the quay, and, as far as could be gathered from him, the man he struck came from the left-hand side of the road near the waterfront. According to Galvin, when the man moved to cross the road the car bore over to the left in order to pass behind and avoid him. However, with the car approaching, he must' have changed his mind and turned back. With a broken windshield, a twisted left headlamp, and 'a dented mudguard, the car went on for a short distance before pulling bp. The force of the collision had knocked off a spare wheel. Galvin ran back to the man and then to the free ambulance depot nearby to get. assistance. The man was taken to hospital in the ambulance van, but on arrival there be was found to be dead. The night was dark, and the road was wet with a light drizzle. The place where the accident happened is a dangerous one, because the quay is extremely wide, and the side nearer the waterfront is badly lit, and no footpath runs along that side. CHILD’S SUDDEN DEATH Noeline Banwell, aged two years and eight months, died in the Dunedin Hospital at 6.45 last evening while undergoing an operation. The child had a convulsion and collapsed. The parents reside at 21 Richardson street, Dunedin An inquest will be held.