ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21978, 13 June 1933, Page 10

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A FATAL COLLISION (Per United Press Association.) ! HAMILTON, June 12. Benjamin Charles Gentry,; aged 22 years, a farm hand, who was thrown from his bicycle in a collision with a car at Taupiri- on Thursday, succumbed to his injuries in the Hamilton Hospital yesterday. . A FATAL SKID (Pee United Press Association.) HAMILTON, June 12. John Lewis Piercy, aged 23 years, a farm hand, who suffered serious injuries through falling from a motor cycle at Rukuhai on Saturday, also succumbed to his injuries yesterday in the Hamilton Hospital. Piercy, who was returning from a holiday with his parents at Wanganui, was riding in.Rayne’g road, Rukuhai, when the machine skidded in loose metal for a distance of 50ft. FOUND DEAD IN BUNK (Per United Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, June 12. Duncan John Hepburn, a resident of Awakino, Mahoenui district, was found dead in his bunk yesterday morning. Hepburn attended a social at Mahoenui on Saturday night, and it is surmised that while returning home he tripped and received the injury that led to his death, A post-mortem will be made. CROSSING TRAGEDY ELDERLY MAN FATALLY INJURED.

(Per United Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, June 12. Struck by an engine at the Weymouth street crossing at 1.30 pin., Robert Hyde Mace, aged 81, of New Plymouth, died in hospital at 4.15. His right leg was severed above the ankle and his left leg was bruised. Death was due to shock. Mace apparently came from Kawaroa Park, which is alongside the railway, and crossed in front of the engine, which was proceeding from the Morley street sheds to the station to. draw the midday express to Wanganui, It is stated that the engine whistle sounded, but Mace, who is somewhat deaf, did not hear it, and walked on to the crossing, which is not regarded as dangerous. MISHAP TO DEER-STALKER (Pee United Press Association.) NELSON, June 12. Kenneth Exton, while deer-stalking at Wangamoa yesterday, was shot through the thigh by another stalker from /a different party, who mistook him for an aniinal in the scrub. His injuries are not serious. ' . FOOTBALL ACCIDENTS (Per United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, June 12. An unusually large number of football accidents was dealt with in Christchurch Hospital on Saturday, five footballers, representatives of all three codes, being admitted to the wards, while there was a constant stream of injured players to the out-patients’ department. “ We lost count of them,” said the attendant. The worst ease was G. F. Johnson (senior Association), with a compound fracture of the right leg, incurred when playing for Nomads against Thistle.

CHILD RESCUED FROM DROWNING fPER United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, June 12. Attired in plus fours, a golf enthusiast on Saturday afternoon dashed into the freezing waters near Cave Rock, Sumner, and rescued a four-year-old girl who was being carried away by the rush of the current into the channel. The child was scrambling amongst the rocks when she was swept off by a heavy breaker. The cries of the other children attracted the man's attention. DEATH BY POISONING The inquest into the cause of the death of Gordon Featherstone Moore, a middleaged miner, who was found dead in his bed at a boarding house in Glasgow street on June 5, was resumed yesterday afternoon before the coroner, Mr H. W. Bundle. S.M. . , Dr Evans said that 'he had examined the body of the deceased on June 5. It was well nourished, and there were no external marks of injury. He had considered that a post-mortem was necessary to ascertain the cause of death. Dr D’Ath said that he had conducted a post-mortem on the body of the deceased. An analysis of the stomach contents showed that the deceased had died as the result of taking a certain liquid poison. , . , Constable OllifTe said that ho had visited the hoarding house on June 8 and had made a search of the room occupied Tiy the deceased, but had found nothing. lie had then made a search of the garden, and underneath a currant bush, about three yards from the bedroom window, he had found a small bottle containing some dregs of a poisonous liquid. The labels on the bottle were in quite good order. The coroner said that the evidence before him showed that the deceased had died from the taking of poison. There was nothing, however, before him to show that it had been intentionally taken, but presumably it had been.