CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3030, 10 April 1912, Page 27

CASUALTIES.

The adjourned inquiry was continued at Auckland on the 3rd inst. into the circumstances surrounding the death of G-eorge Taylor, engine-driver in the employ of the Takapuna Tramway Company, which occurred though the deceased being crushed between the buffers of a car and an engine on March 26. A verdict of accidental death was returned, no blame being attached to anybody. A motor car accident occurred at Wimbledon, near Dannevirko, on the 3rd inst. A car containing Mr J. Franklin and Or and Mrs Leeper, in trying to avoid a horse, capsized over a bank. Mr Franklin escaped unhurt. Dr Leeper suffered from a dislocated jaw and badly-cut face; Mrs Leeper sustained a hurt smoulder and is also suffering from shock. Dr Leeper recently arrived from Homo to practise in the Ilerbertville district. Victor Manson, aged 23, was badly crushed about the nips through being caught between a crane and a truck on the Glasgow wharf, Wellington, on the 3rd inst. Ho was removed to the hospital. Nat Berry, aged 23, wliilo working on the site of His Majesty's Theatre, Wellington, preparing for the new building, was struck fay a falling gutter. One arm was so badly injured that amputation below the elbow was found necessary. An accident, which narrowly missed being a fatality, occurred in Princes street, Dunedin, on the 3rd inst. Mr Malcolm Kellan, aged 76 years, was in the act of crossing over from Dowling street whilst a tramcar was advancing slowly up tho hill. On seeing the car approaching him, Mr Kellan apparently got confused, stopped for a moment, and then walked in front of the car, which knocked him down. Ho was removed in a cab to the Hospital, where it was found that his thigh was broken, and he was otherwise bruited about his body. Whilst waiting for a tram at the corner of Princes and Rattray streets, Dunedin, on Tuesday Mrs Mary Campbell was knocked over by a cyclist. Mrs Campbell was accompanied by her married daughter, and as they stepped off the footpath the cyclist came riding past slowly, and although ho tried to avoid a collision the impact was sufficiently severe to knock the lady off her feet rather heavily. Tho cyclist (whoso name the police have so far been unable to ascertain) promptly offered h>s assistance, but on being told that Mrs Campbell was not severely hurt ho rodo away. It turned out later that the ladyhad received a severe shock to her nervous

system and had to be taken to her home in George street, where she was attended to by Dr North. She is making- satisfac- , tory progress. It is said that the cyclist was on his right side of the street at the time of the accident, which is stated to have been unavoidable under the circumstances. An accident occurred at Epsom, Auckland, on tho 4th inst., resulting in the death of William Jones, carter, of Ponsonby. Jones was driving a carb when a tram car collided with it from the rear, throwing Jones out. Ho was picked up unconscious, having sustained a severe .fracture of tho skull. Ho died in the hospital next day. The deceased was a. married man, and was 44 years of ago. A boy named Bertie Boborg, aged 10 years, and living; in tho Anderson's Bay road, had a fall from his bicycle in Maeanclrew road on Good Friday evening. Ho received a bad cut above the left kneecap, a cut above the eye, and some severe scratches about the face. He was picked up by some bystanders, and had his wounds dressed by Dr O'Neill, after which ho was removed to his home by Constable Fox, where some stitches were put in his injured knee. It appears that the accident happened through a handbag- which he was carrying coming into contact with tho hand'e-bans and upsetting him. At the inquest on the body of Norman Holmes Denby, who was run over bv a bu 3 at Devonport, Auckland, on "Wednesday, and who died as the result of his injuries, a verdict of accidental death was returned. Alexander Hay, while assisting to sink a well at Maunganui on April 6, was covered by a fall of earth, and died before ho could be extricated. His neck was broken. Ho leaves a widow and two children. At the inquest a verdict of accidental death was returned. Austin Loder, a well-known resident of Tauranga, was found dead in his house on tho 6th inst. with a bullet wound in his forehead and a rifle lying at his feet. Ho had not been seen since Sunday, and had apparently been dead for five or six days. The deceased recently returned from a trip to the Old Country, bringing with him a quantity of merchandise to open business. Ho purchased business premises, and became very'despondent over the transaction, fearing that ho had given too much. A party of motorists was returning from Taikorca on tho 6th inst., when tho axlo of tho car broke. The car ran into a ditch and threw tho occupants out, tho driver, Morris, sustaining a broken shoulder The benzine spilt on the grass, which was accidentally ignited by a man iooking with a lighted match for his lost spectacles. Tho car was completely destroyed. It was worth about ■ £250, and was uninsured. Harry Clements, 60 voars of ago, a runner for the New Zealand Times Company, was found lying dead on Thursday in a hand-cart near the entrance to tho Queen's wharf. Mrs Jano Parsons, 33 years of ago, residing at Papanui, dropped dead on tho fi*h mst. Heart failure is supposed to be the cause. A young man named Hugh Kane, residing near Burnside, was admitted to the Hospital on Saturday evening, suffering .'from an injury to his right hand. It appears that Kane was using a plug of gelignite, and after lighting the fut=e failed to get rid of the charge quickly enough, with tho result that it exploded in his hand, blowing off his thumb and two of his forefingers. No further complications are anticipated' as a result of the accident. A young man nemed Allan Lament, who resides at Pine Hill, met with an accident while driving along the road near Waitati on tho 6th inst. Lamont and three others wvn- in a hired trap, when the horse began to play up. Lamont got on to the step of tho vehicle and was thrown out, being rendered unconscious. The ambulance was despatched from Duned'in, and the injured man brought in to town. Before tho arrival of the ambulance at Waitati, however, Lamont had recovered consciousness, and on being examined at the Hospital it was found that his only injury was a gravel rash on the face. After this had boon attended to he was able to proceed to his home. Mr W. Lee, a member of the West Taieri Drainage Board, was tho victim of a nasty accident at Momona on Saturday, 31st ult. While making some alterations to his binder as ho was reaping some o*op, the sound of blasting operations in an adjoining paddock startled Mr Leo's horses, and he was knocked down on the machine, receiving some very bad cuts about tho legs. He was removed to a private hospital in Dunedin.