CASUALTIES

Otago Witness, Issue 3430, 9 December 1919, Page 61

CASUALTIES

A man named Nattrass was knocked down at Petone, Wellington, on the £rd iiist.. He subsequently died at the hospital. "The" de-' ceased, who was a casual, porter at.Lampton Station, was a married man with five, children, -and was a brother of Mr H.. Nattrass, of the firm of Nattrass and Harris. Mr A. Tait, at Kawarau Gorge, met with a tevere accident on Monday last (states the Crormvell'Argus). It would appear that he went ; from, his home to attend to some horses in a yard ■ a short distance away, and later was .found in an unconscious state, with a severe wound in the forehead, having evidently been kicked by one of the horses. He was removed to the Cromwell Hospital. Charles Jenkins,- a patient,in -the Pofirua Mental Hospital, threw himself-in front of a-train at Porirua Station, and was killed instantly. He was_ regarded as only slightly affected, and, being a voluntary patient, was allowed more latitude than others. The Christchureh police received advice that the body of. a newly-born male infant had been found at the residence of Mr J. Bishop, at Tinwald, between the copper and the wall of the washhouse. The body was removed to the morgue, where a post-mortem enamination was held. An inquest was held before Mr J. Cow, J.P., district coroner. D T. Pettey deposed that the child had been born alive, and that death _ was due to strangulation with a piece of tape, which he produced. Subsequently he examined a ' girl named ' Catherine;• .Small, who admitted she was the mother 1 of the child. The inquest_ was adjourned for a week, the coroner intimating that criminalproceedings would follow. An elderly man. named Alfred Burton, was the victim of a painful "accident at Brydone last week (states the Farmer). He was engaged at the time driving- a team of horses attached to a disc harrow, on a piece of land belonging to Mr George Stuart; then the reins became entanp-lod in the machine, and owing to Burton simultaneously having the handling portion of the ribbons" wound about one of his thumbs the rope tightened up to such an extent that the unfortunate man's thumb was pulled clean off at the second joint. The sufferer was conveyed to Gore Hospital, where he is doing a& well as can be expected. * Burton's wife and family reside at Mataiura, Evan "Brookfield. the I.S-months' old son of Mr Kenneth Brookfield, solicitor, Auckland, was having a bath, and on the nurse•girl returning after a brief interval the child was found dead, its head being under water.

The police have received advice that a man named- Patrick Di-'orngool was drowned at Titahi Bay. Welling-ton, on the 7th. No particulars are available. Mr Leslie Churchill, 40 years of atgs, who lives at 36 Howe street, met with a motor cycle accident in George street on

Sunday, with the rseult that he had to be taken to the Hospital. In falling- from the cycle he received injuries to his head.