ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22628, 20 July 1935, Page 14

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

— DEATH FROM GUNSHOT WOUND (Peb United Press Association) WELLINGTON, July 19. John James Beattie Craig, who had been missing from his home at Paekakariki since Wednesday, was found lying dead 300 yards away with a wound in his head and a shotgun beside the body. The deceased was 47 years of age. He borrowed a shotgun and three rounds of ammunition and went out, saying to his wife he was going to have a shot at some rabbits. MOTOR CYCLE SMASH RIDER FATALLY INJURED. (Peb United Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, July 19. Otto Robert White, aged 17, a son of Mr Otto C. White, hairdresser, of New Brighton, was killed when the motor cycle he was riding in Page’s road this afternoon struck the rear of a carrier’s truck, owned by Mr E. L. Smith and driven by William Anderson Barclay. The pillion rider on the cycle, Frances Beardsley, aged 18, of Lonsdale street, New Brighton, was badly injured, and was admitted to hospital. White suffered severe head injuries, and died within a few minutes of the accident.

FATALITY AT QUEENSTOWN

MAN KILLED ON WHARF.

Orkney James Stevenson, aged 30, a married man, with one child, who resided at Queenstown, met his death yesterday afternoon while assisting in riveting operations on the coal chute of the s.s. Earnslaw. The steamer was lying at the wharf undergoing its annual overhaul. Stevenson was secured by a rope, and was standing on the belting of the ship “holding on” during the riveting of an iron plate. The vibration of the hammering shook cut the pin which held the chute, allowing it to drop, and in its fall it caught Stevenson and pinned him by the neck against the wharf. Dr Anderson was summoned immediately, but life was almost extinct when he arrived. The body was conveyed to the Lake County Hospital mortuary, where an inquest will be opened to-morrow. Stevenson was a motor driver by occupation, and for two years he was employed as a driver between Queenstown and Maori Point for Skippers, Ltd. About six weeks ago ho obtained temporary employment on the overhaul of the steamer, and was to have finished last night. He was a son of the late Mr and Mrs Janies Stevenson, of Crown terrace, Queenstown.