CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3384, 22 January 1919, Page 46

CASUALTIES.

Leslie Vincent Bugler, of Springlands, Marlborough, aged 17 mouths, was run over by a horse and trap, and died immediately afterwards.

Oscar Edward Dobbs. aged 12, was drowned at Tolojra Bay on the 16th inst. William Spedding, a middle-aged man, was found dead at Napier on the 16th inst. Death was due to natural causes, and no inquest will bo held.

A case of suicide is reported from Kumara, a man named John M'Rae having been found dead with his throat cut. He was a single man, 45 years of age, and had been employed at Wainihinihi by Messrs Fitzgerald Bros. He was a native of Winton, Southland. A wharf labourer named Albert Emanuel Schwinghammcr, aged 28, dropped dead in a right-of-way in New Plymouth on the 17th. He had recently had influenza, and it is supposed that his heart was affected.

William Robert Donald, aged 19 years, employed in the cheese factory at Kaitangata, while motor cycling to his home in Maitland, near Gore, for his annual leave, crashed into the north-bound express at the railway crossing near Waipahi on the 16th ins*. _ He was conveyed to Gere, but died in the hospital the same night. A moter car occupied by Vivian Cox, of the National Insurance Company, and Fancourt, a Main Body returned soldier, who was formerly employed with Messrs Sargood, Son, and Ewen, whioh was proceeding from Nopier to Cranthorpe, overturned at Harper's Corner, pinning Fancourt underneath and killing him. Cox was uninjured. Corporal Harman Fancourt ' had returned from the front by the Ulimaroa only some three weeks ago. He left Napier with the Main Body, and fought right through the war, being once wounded at the first battle of the Somme. He was on his three weeks' leave, spending a holiday with some of his Napier friends. Prior to enlisting he was in charge of a department for Sargood, Son, and Ewen, Napier. He was a keen yachtsman, and was the first secretary of the Otago Motor Club.] William T. Foster, aged 75 years, who was knocked down by a motor cycle at Auckland on January 1, c'ied in tire hospital on the 17th inst. On Saturday a young man, Robert Alexander, aged 19 years, employed at Seacliff, was admitted to the Dunedin Hospital suffering from injuries to his chest, received by being crushed between a gate post and his cart, while driving through the gate. Mary Cuthbertson, aged 48 years, a married woman, residing at Omimi, was admitted to the "Hospital on Saturday suffering from a fractured left leg, caused by a fall whilst descending some steps at the door of her home.

While pycling down the lull to Abbotsford, Mabel Bamber, aged 23 years, residing with her parents at 16 De Carle street, lost control of her machine, and collided with a telegraph post. She was admitted. to the Hospital on Sunday afternoon, suffering from injuries to her head. Charles Reid, a married man, with three children, head postal messenger at Frankton Junction, was struck by a shunting engine and thrown on the line. He fell under the engine, and was dragged for a chain and a-half, and -terribly mutilated. Life was extinct when he was picked up. A Native named Paora Tewara, aged 60 years, was burned to death in his whare at Waipiro Bay. The four-year-old son of Mr Herbert Reeves, of Rapaura, a was caught in a reaper,, and one of his legs was badly mangled, beinnr almost severed. Alex S. Anderson, 12£ years of age, residing with his parents in Queenstown, whilst employed at the shop of Alexander Grant, butcher, got his hand caught in a machine, losing four of the fingers of the left hand above the third joint. The lad was attended to by Dr Stewart and'afterwards conveyed to the Frankton .Hospital. Elizabeth Harrison, an elderly woman, residing at 123 Anderson's Bay road, Musselburgh, was admitted to the Hospital on Monday suffering from a fracture of the left leg, caused by being run into by a motor car while preparing to enter a tram. Henry Morrison, 14 years of age, residing at 19 Alhany street, met with a painful accident at Middlemarch on Monday by falling from a horse, resulting .in one of his legs being fractured. He was removed to the Hospital, where he is progressing satisfactorily. , " . - • William Stevenson, a blacksmith, aged 53 years, and residing at Palmerston, slipped and fell in his home on Sunday, causing a fracture of a leg. He was admitted to the Hospital.