CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3783, 14 September 1926, Page 37

CASUALTIES.

AUCKLAND, September 7. A General Omnibus Company’s bus collided with a tramcar at a street intersection, and was badly wrecked. One wheel was torn off, one 6ide ripped out, and the windscreen and most of the windows shattered. The tram sustained minor damage. There was only one passenger in the bus, Mrs Hale, who sustained a scalp wound, and is suffering from shock. The driver of the bus (W. G. M’Leod) was cut about the face by flying glass. September 8. Abraham Fletcher, a resident of Newton, is in hospital with very serious internal injuries. He was knocked down by a motor car. Florence Alice Matzke, a widow, residing at Mount Roskill, died in hospital from injuries sustained through being knocked down by a motor bus on the Great North road. September 9. A motor car conveying the Ao Tea Roa Maori Entertainers crashed over a bank on a slippery road at Riverhead and fell 25ft. it landed upside down. In the front seat there were J. Brady (the driver), his daughter Josephine, and Miss Olive Hodge; in the back seat there were Misses Moanai and Hepiui Waretini (sisters) and Grace Withers. Those in the back seat were thrown clear, but the other three were pinned under the car. Miss Brady sustained severe internal injuries, and the others were badly bruised. The car was unlawfully used on the previous night on a joy-riding expedition, when, it is thought, the steering gear was damaged. * September 10. A fatal accident occurred at the Ellerslie railway station shortly before 10 o’clock last evening, the victim being Mrs Annie Gladys Pemberton, aged 34 years, the wife of Samuel Pemberton, of Millar street, Ellerslie. As the AucklandPenrose train was drawing away from the station Mrs Pemberton was noticed lying on the platform. She was at once removed to the waiting room, and medical aid was summoned. The doctor when he arrived could only pronounce life to be extinct. It is not yet known how the accident happened, but it is supposed that the deceased was a passenger by the train which arrives at Ellerslie from Auckland at 9.40 p.m., and that she tried to alight just as it started to go on again. She was discovered by the driver of the next train from Auckland, and on examination was found to be suffering from injuries to the head consistent with a fall. An inquest was opened this morning, and, after evidence of identification had been given, it was adjourned sine die. A League footballer named A. Matthews, aged 23 years, residing at

Devonport, was injured while playing in a match. He was taken to hosiptal, where it was found he was suffering from concussion, and it is possible there may be a fracture of the base of the skull. WELLINGTON, September 11.

Stanley Murphy, who was arrested for drunkenness, was found hanged in a cell at the Petone Gaol. He had evidently placed the cell bucket under the observation window und put his head through the aperture. The bucket had either been kicked or had slipped or been pushed aw'ay. When a constable called to inspect he found Murphy strangled. September 12. TAIHAPE, September 9. Mr Harry Coatma, a local guard on the railways, was injured whilst shunting at the Pokaka Station, being crushed between the buffers of two trucks. The injured man was brought on to Ohakune, and after being medically attended to was taken to Taihape for X-ray investigation. A little boy, two years of age, son of Mr and Mrs Kiats, Oliakune Junction, had two fingers severed by an axe with which he was playing. WAIPAWA, September 10. As the Wellington express was pulling into the station this afternoon the engine caught a motor lorry driven by a lad named Rex Witherow, and carried it some distance before it pulled up. Witherow was thrown out and miraculously escaped serious injury. The lorry was wrecked. NEW PLYMOUTH, September 7.

Miss Minnie Tiplady, about 27 years of age, employed as a clerk by Messrs Newton King (Ltd.), died suddenly at the office of the firm about noon to-day.

HAWERA, September 10. At the inquest at Manaia to-day into the death of Samuel Prout, a farmer, at Inaha, a verdict was returned that deceased committed suicide while temporarily insane. William Brooksby, aged 16 years, an orphan inmate of the Salvation _ Army’s Home at Eltham, suffered injuries sustained in a fall from a pony while bringing in the cows. He died later at the Hawera Hospital. At the inquest a verdict of accidental death was returned. CARTERTON, September 8.

Three college lads named Hector Cameron, John Roberts, and Douglas Sutherland, all of whom were cousins, were playing with a rifle at Ngaipu Station, Hinakura, yesterday afternoon. Cameron, aged 15, was handling the weapon, when it exploded. The bullet went through his stomach, and the lad was taken to a private hospital at Martinborough, a distance of 20 miles. His injuries, though serious, are not considered dangerous. The injured youth is a son of Mr D. Cameron, of Moeraki Station, Hinakura. WELLINGTON, September 9.

At the inquest in Wellington on the body of Frank Milton Winter, aged 33 years, who disappeared from his home at Lyall Bay on August 15, and whose body was recovered from the harbour on Monday, the coroner returned a verdict of suicide by drowning while in ill-health. Arthur Augustus Geison, a single man, aged 21 years, a carpenter, enlployed at the Petone Railway Workshops, and who resided at Lower Hutt, died at the hospital to-night from injuries received to his head and chest through being crushed between a railway wagon and a fence door of a suction gas plant, which was undergoing alterations at Petone. He died 40 minutes after admission to the hospital. September 8. A fatal accident occurred yesterday at Morumotu, near Taihape, when Alfred Norman Clarence Anderson was killed and William Brown injured internallv as a result of a rope breaking and flying back on the men. An inquest was opened, but it was adjourned till Brown is fit to give evidence. GREYMOUTH, September 11. A fatal accident occurred on Saturday evening at 6.42 at the Spring Creek railway crossing near Kamaka when a train coming from Blackball to Greymouth struck a car in which three women were proceeding home to Blackball. Miss Margaret Wolstenholme was alone in the front seat driving, while her mother, Mary Ann Wolstenholme, aged 63 years, and Mrs Caldwell w'ere in the rear seat. The engine whistled just before it struck the car when the latter was half-way across the line. It threw Miss Wolstenholme nine feet and Mrs Caldwell six feet forward, while Mrs Wolstenholme was found beneath the mudguard with injuries to her head from which she died in the train on the way to hospital. Mrs Caldwell had a wrist and shoulder broken, and was sent to hospital in a serious condition. Miss Wolstenhome. escaped with bruises and shock. The crossing in question is a very daneerous one.

CHRISTCHURCH, September 9. At the inquest to-day on George Rome Hollway, the Canterbury College engineering student who collapsed and died while climbing Castle Hill, Craigie Burn, with a college survey party yesterday, the medical evidence showed that deceased had been suffering from a derangement of the heart, and had an inward goitre. The coroner returned a verdict accordingly. September 10. John Wilson, the four-year-olii son of Mr and Mrs T. Wilson, of Christchurch, recently was playing on the motor road that leads from Sumner to Taylor’s Mistake, when he lost his footing, and, after, rolling some 100 ft down the precipitous incline, wont over the edge and fell 30ft on to the macadam road beneath. With the exception of a few abrasions and the resultant shock, no damage wa 8 done, and he has now boen discharged from hospital. "" September 12. A verdict of death from a bullet wound which was self-inflicted was returned at the inquest on Thomas Henry Guy, a single man, aged 32 years, who was found dead in a chaff house on a farm at Fernside earlv on Saturday morning. The accused, who was a returned soldier, leu a note stating: “Dear Mother, —I am suffering agony. My nerves are done. Goodbye to all dear ones. God bless and keep you all safe. —Tom.” FALL FROM LADDER. John Henderson, aged 30 yean*, who resides at 244 a George streat, was admitted to Hospital on Saturday afternoon suffering from injuries to the head and arm, caused by a fall from a ladder. The injured man, who is employed by the Otago Steam Laundry and Dyeing Company, was cleaning skylights at the Stock Exchange Buildings, when the chock staying the ladder slipped.