ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22212, 15 March 1934, Page 10

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

QUARRY WORKER'S DEATH BURIED UNDER METAL DUST, , (Peb United Pbesb Association.) AUCKLAND, March, 14. A fatal accident occurred at the quarries on the bank of the Waikato River at Tuakau when a workman named Alfred Charles Baigent, aged 45, married, was buried by the metal dust in a hopper and was suffocated. It is. thought that the deceased was standing on top of the metal when it suddenly gave way beneath him and that he was hurled to the bottom of the hopper, being buried beneath about 20 tons of dust. No one saw the accident, but the absence of the deceased led to the surmise that a mishap had occurred. His companions quickly recovered Baigent's body, but a doctor found that death had occurred. The deceased is survived by his wife, two sons, and two daughters. FATAL FALL FROM HORSE (Peb United Pkes3 Association.) ;.;■ AUCKLAND, March li Fatal injuries were received by a hairdresser, Percy Emeny, aged 27 yeaie, of New Plymouth, when he was thrown from a horse in Morrinsville. Emeny was taking the animal to a blacksmith when it became frightened. It jumped the water table, throwing its rider heavily. He was found to be suffering from severe internal injuries and a fractured pelvis, and cued this evening. • ~ DROWNED WHILE BATHING (Peb United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, March 14. Theodore Anderson, a bootmaker, aged 72, was drowned while bathing at ■Point Howard last evening. , Anderson ~w«nt for a bathe shortly after 9 o'clock, and his son accompanied him to the beach. A few minutes after Anderson had entered the water his eon, missed him, and on receiving no answer went'.. for lights and helpers. An incoming fishing launch was also pressed into service, and Anderson was found rface, downwards on the rocks - opposite -the Lowry Bay bathing sheds. A doctor who was called pronounced life extinct. It is understood that Anderson bathed after dark at hia doctor's orders. YOUNG WOMAN'S SUICIDE' , ■••■■■ : : - .:.{■- ;■ (Peb United Pbess-Association.)'? WELLINGTON, March 14. At the inquest into the death of Alkt Lilian Taylor, aged 21, who Was found dying in an office in Cooper's Buil-iings on March 9, the coroner (Mr E. Gilbertson) found that she died m the Wellington Hospital from the effects of.Bwallowing corrosive.liquid self-administered.' A FATAL COLLISION MOTOR CYCLIST'S DEATH. ".

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CHRISTCHURCH, March 14. A finding that death was due to gas gangrene as the result of infection after injuries in an accident was .returned by the coroner, Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M;y at the inquest on the death of Percy Reynolds Philpott, aged 20, a motor cyclist. Philpott, said the coroner, was injured in a collision between his motor cycle on his correct side of the Main North road on January 30 and a motor car driven by James M'Givern, a retired farmer, on his incorrect side. '1 am quite satisfied from the evidence that the motor car driven by M'Givern should not have been in a position to piace the deceased in peril," said the coroner. " The road was a beautifully straight one for about three-quarters of a'mile. In this case a motor car was travelling at 25 miles an hour and another car pulled out and tried to pass it, and saw the motor cycle about eight chains away. There was a collision. It was entirely due to the fact that M'Givern pulled out and did not take steps to avert it by dropping behind the other car. YOUNG WOMAN'S DEATH; The adjourned inquest on the body of a young woman who died in the Public Hospital on January 22 was concluded yesterday at the Courthouse, Mr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M., sitting as coroner. Detective Sergeant Nuttall conducted the proceedings on behalf of the police and Mr F. M. Hanan appeared for the young man to whom the deceased was engaged. After hearing medical evidence and the evidence of the- relatives and Detectiye Sergeant Nuttall, the coroner said that' it did not attach responsibility or suspicion to any particular person. He could only find that death was due to generalised peritonitis caused by perforation of the anterior wall of the uterus, unlawfully performed by some person unknown. .'•;.■•■••