ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23649, 5 November 1938, Page 19

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

STRUCK BY LOCOMOTIVE MAN SUCCUMBS TO INJURIES (Per United Press Association) NEW PLYMOUTH, Nov. 4. Mathias Jensen, who was struck by a shunting locomotive when he was crossing the railway line from the New Plymouth station to the Dort last Tuesday night, died in hospital early this morning. He received a badly fractured skull and thigh. He was a retired carpenter, aged 65. and lived at New Plymouth. MOTOR CAR SOMERSAULTS INJURED MAN SUCCUMBS (Per United Press Association) PALMERSTON N., Nov. 4. The death occurred in hospital today of Claude William Macdonald, hairdresser, married, of Wellington, who was injured when a car somersaulted near Ohau last Saturday evening. FOUND UNCONSCIOUS MOTOR CYCLIST AND PILLION RIDER (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, Nov. '4. A motor cyclist, Ray Campbell, of Lyall Bay, and a pillion rider, Miss I. McNee, of Lyall Bay, were found lying unconscious on the roadside after beint* thrown from the machine near Point Howard. The girl was found to be suffering from concussion and severe injuries to both knees and an injury to an arm and shoulder. Campbell is suffering from injuries to his head and an arm Both were sent to the hospital. The motor cycle appeared to nave left the road and ran a short distance along the pipes which run slightly below the road level. A PATIENT FOUND DEAD (Per United Press Association) HOKITIKA. Nov. 4. Augustus Patrick Gawne, a labourer, of Waiho, a patient in the Westland Hospital, committed suicide last night Tying his pyjama, cord round his neck, he suspended, himself from a bed post. Sixty-nine years old, he was a widower, with three young children. ELDERLY WOMAN'S COLLAPSE Alice Poole, an elderly woman who lives at 5 Baxter street, Maori Hill, collapsed while in the shop of Penrose's in George street yesterday afternoon. She was admitted to the Hospital at 3 o'clock.

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