CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3868, 1 May 1928, Page 37

CASUALTIES.

WATERSIDE WORKER’S DEATH. AUCKLAND, April 25. The death occurred yesterday of Charles Owens, aged 48, a married watersideworker who was injured on April 14 through falling 15ft from the roof of a house. The deceased struck his head on a concrete vard, and received a fracture of the skull. DEATH IN THE STREET. ROTORUA, April 24. An elderly man named George Palmer, married, aged 51, residing in Amahou street, Rotorua, died suddenly in Hinemoa . street. He was employed in the Public Works Department. The deceased was recently under medical treatment. The cause of death presumably was heart failure. BODY FOUND IN HARBOUR. TIMARU, April 24. The bodv of a well-dressed man. 45 years of age, wag found floating in the harbour this morning. The body had been in the water for some months, with the result that the features were unrecognisable. The hands were tied together with a rope yarn, and attached to the body were two pieces of heavy iron bar. There were no marks on the body or anything to lead to identification. DROMORE FATALITY. ASHBURTON. April 24. The inquest concerning the death of Rowland Bedford, aged 23. the motor cyclist who wa s struck and killed instantaneously bv an unknown motorist on the Main South road, near Dromore, about 5,45 p.m. on Saturday, was formallv opened on Monday morning at the Ashburton Courthouse, before the district coroner (Mr R. Clark). . After evidence of identification had been given by Stanley Albert Bedford, brother of the deceased, the inquest was adjourned indefinitely. SHIP’S STOKER INJURED. AUCKLAND. April 26. ** Suffering from internal injuries and abrasions, a stoker named Arthur Smitheron, aged 25, of H.M.S. Diomede, was admitted to the Auckland Hospital ihout 11 o’clock yesterday morning. His condition to-day is not serious. The injured man was hurt in a collision between a motor cycle on which he was riding and a motor car driven by Victor L. Baker, of Mount Roskill. Smitheron was crossing Dominion road when the accident happened. After the impact Baker lost control of the car, which mounted the footpath, knocking dows Mrs Helen Knight, of Mount Eden, and overturning a perambulator she was wheeling. Mrs Knight was badly shaken, and was assisted to her home. Her 12 months’ old daughter, although thrown from the perambulator, was uninjured. GAS POISONING. AUCKLAND, April 26. At the inquest on Mrs Lena Eliza Lindsay, who was found read at her home in Belmont, with a gas tube near her head, the Coroner found a verdict of suicide by gas poisoning. A SKIN BUYER’S DEATH. HAMILTON, April 26. The body of Arthur Pickering, a skin buyer, who had been missing for a month, was found in a stream a mile and a-half from his home at Morrinsville. The deceased was recently leclared a bankrupt, and proceedings before the assignee were taken in the man’s absence. He had guaranteed his wife in a boarding house venture, which had failed. INJURIES RESULT FATALLY. DANNEVIRKE, April 27. At the inquest concerning the death of Ivo Horace Walters, aged 28, a salesman, of Auckland, who died at Dannevirke on April 18 as the result of injuries suffered in a motor collision on the previous day on the road between Matamau and Ormondville, between cars driven by Raymond Purton (of Palmerston North) and Robert Barton Holley (of Auckland), the coroner found that death was due to shock and hemmorrhage following rupture of the liver. CARS COLLIDE. WANGANUI, April 27. Mr and Mrs Arthur Cooper were run into by a car said to have been driven bv F. A. F. -Symes, of Sfafield, on the Springvale road to-night. Both were taken to the hospital, and their condition is serious. .Mr Cooper underwent an operation on his admission. They have six children, ranging from 18 months to 13 years of age. .BODY FOUND AT FOOT OF CLIFF. TIMARU, April 27. The body of a young man named Arthur Major was found with the neck broken at the foot of a rocky cliff on Genmore Station, in the Mackenzie Country. It is supposed that the deceased fell over the SERIOUS MOTOR SMASH. TAIHAPE, April 28. At an early hour this morning a car containing two young men named Walter

Warren and Robert Boyd ran over a bank on the. road at Bennetts Siding, North of Taihape. The car skidded on some shingle. Boyd was pinned beneath the car, and Warren had his jaw and nose broken, and an eye gouged out. He struggled to the farmhouse 0 of Mr C. H. Baker for assistance. Dtit’’ the sufferers were conveyed, to the hospital. Warren’s condition is serious. Boyd suffered injuries to his back. The car fell about 30 feet. DEATH FROM SCALDS. . INVERCARGILL, April 28. An inquest was held yesterday concerning the death of June Faulkner an 18 months’ old infant, who died on Apnl 21 at the Southland Hospital, nearly a month after being admitted from Tuatapere, where she was badly scalded when a kettle of boiling water overturned. The coroner returned a verdict that death was due to shock, the result of scalds. RAILWAY WORKER’S DEATH. INVERCARGILL, April 28. . An inquest was held yesterday touching the death of Frederick Ross, railway surfaceman, who died after admission to the Southland Hospital on April 21 from .Morton Mains, where he was involved in an accident in which a railway jigger was wrecked by the engine of a train en route from Edendale to Invercargill. The medical evidence showed that the deceased had an extensive fracture at the base of the skull. In his evidence, James Staunton, driver of the train, said that the train was running 30 minutes late when it came into Morton Mains, and the deceasedmight have thought jt had already passed. It was quite possible that the deceased was moving the trolley from the main line on to the parking rails when it was struck. The coroner returned a verdict that the deceased died from injuries received at Morton Mains railway station through a trolley he was removing from the line on to the parking line being struck by a passing train. FOOTBALL ACCIDENTS. AUCKLAND, April 28. The opening day’s play in the Auckland Rugby Union’s senior championship was remarkable for the number of injuries received by players. In the principal match between Ponsonby and Grammar Old Boys no fewer than seven players had to leave the field. Of the Grammar Old Boys team Singleton broke a bone in his forearm, Monteith injured his knee, and Wilson his ankle, while Badeley received a kick on the side of the head. On the Ponsonby side Matson broke his collarbone soon after the start of the game, Fraser received injuries to his eye and knee, and Knight tore the cartileges of his ribs. At Eden Park Jacobs, full back for City against Training College, and Blakey, full back for University against Grafton, both had to leave the field with knee injuries. At North Shore, where Manakau was playing the home team, the injured list was also substantial. Watene, Harris, and Laird, of the Manakau team, were carried off, though the former was able to resume after having had his nose attended to. Johnson, of the North Shore team, was also carried off. There was a great number of stoppages in this game, which took over two and a-quarter hours to complete, the second spell being prolonged for half an hour. The only senior Rugby match in which a player did not have to leave the field was that between Marists and College Rifles. The heavy casualty list may be attributed to the fact that the majority of the players were not fit. INJURIES TO HEAD. As the result of being knocked down by a motor car at the corner of M'Bride street and Cargill road, John Moynihan, aged 30, was taken to the hospital at 9.15 on Saturday evening suffering froip head injuries. The injured man resides at 11 M‘Bride street. ELDERLY WOMAN’S FALL. Mrs Janet Hanson, aged 62, residing at 16 St. Helier’s court, Caversham, was admitted to hospital at 11.30 on Sunday morning with a fractured right leg. The injury was the result of a fall at her home. FALL THROUGH SKYLIGHT. Miss Connie Boyle, aged 20, residing on the premises of the Waratah Tea Rooms, was taken to the hospital at noon on Sunday with severe bruises, caused by falling through a skylight into Messrs Wardell Bros’, shop. A FRACTURED LEG. Suffering from a fractured right leg, Ernest Geary, aged • 24, residing at 6 Forbury Crescent, was admitted to hospital at 4.30 on Saturday afternoon. The injury was received while Geary was playing football for Southern against University C. ACCIDENT IN RAILWAY YARD. Mr H. W. Bundle, coroner, opened an inquest on Friday into the circumstances attending the death of Theodore Augustus Godfrey, a labourer ip the employ of the Railways Department, who met with fatal injuries in the goods yard on Thursday night. The body was identified by Thomas George Ferguson, railway storeman, who stated that deceased wag married, 59 years of age, his wife living in Christchurch. Witness did not know anything of the accident which caused the man’s death. Godfrey had enjoyed good health for the last six months, but before that he used to have periodical turns of

neuritis. As far as he knew, his eyesight and hearing were both good. The coroner adjourned the inquest sine die. MOTOR CAR SOMERSAULTS. A motor accident occurred near Morner Bush, Merton, on Anzac Day. A large five-seater car, driven by a lady, in attempting to pass another car swerved, and, leaving the road, turned two somersaults. One of the passengers wag badly injured, but the others escaped with minor bruises and cuts. The car was wrecked.