CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3514, 19 July 1921, Page 38

CASUALTIES.

At an inquest at ID-aii novirke into tlie death ot Lucy \\ jliianis, who tiled on June 29 as un: result of injuries received in a collision wit.li a motor cycl.sb the evidence showed that deceased and her sisror were riding without lights, and the former was run into by a male cyclist, who also did not have a light. 'I he verdict returned was that death was caused by a fracture of the base of the skull, and the coroner strongly commented upon the practice of people ruling b\cycles and driving motor cars and vehicles after dark without lights. -Mi- Richard Evans, aged 78, a well-known Kaiapoi resident, while crossing the railway line to catch a train for Christchurch, was knocked down, part of the train passing over his cg>. lie was taken to the Kaiapoi Xursmg Ilc.ne. where lie died a little later. . lie was chainnan of the Wain;:’ kariri liar pour i'-aici, and a prominent n. ,; m: or ot the Farine:.*' Cni n and other bodies llemv I resort Aiayo. hrrsh maker, aged -19, yeas found dead on tin-- ICt'i in a vacant ‘■■ecriou deai- ( ;ni.-rchumh with a bullet wound m Lis left, breasr. At the inquest a \or diet was returned of death from hullet v. mid self-inhicted. He left ? l^' ri to his mother slating that ue had no wish to live, as the father f \ 1 * V •~ ie va ' keeping company viiJi nad refused to allow him to call a hei house on the ground that ins daughter "■ns too young to have a hoy -V young man minted Thomas Campbell, ag.a! 25 years. w - di rviied while crossing -> e 'Or, Creek at Xgahere. The creek was ii, flood, a:ul he was sweat off his luose. ■ ’ 1! 1 • | : ■ g iliisms, .'.[ayor of Wan.ganui, knocked clown by a motor car when proceeding- to a council meeting on the 12 m. Mr Williams was badly knocked a..- nr. and it was found cute oi his arms was broken. Yt bile u seaman was coming ashore from the steamer Kan.na. which is berthed at the cia r- wharf. Dunedin, on the 12th inst.. he tripped over a rope, and was precipitated into tue water, falling between the vessel and tue wharf. Help was promptlv forthcoining. and the man was rescued little the worse of his involuntary ducking. .John Chaney, aged "43 -.ears, married employed at the Islington Freezing Works! fell 16ft on to a eon-rete floor, as the result of a plank on which he was standing breaking. He died at the hospital. At an infjnest a verdict that death was due to a fracture of the skull, and that no blame svtis attachable to anyone, was returned. Henry Egerton Martin, married, aged 63, an _ old resident of Waiknmete, was killed w 1>il« alighting from the train at that station. He apparently mistook the station, ami remained on the train until it was starting, and in attempting to alight slipped between the platform nr.d the carriage, lie "as Crap aid about a windage length, death b : big instantaneous. The body was terribly mutilated.