CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3994, 30 September 1930, Page 35

CASUALTIES.

A SHUNTING ACCIDENT. INVERCARGILL, " September 24. As a result of a shunting accident at the Wyndham railway yards at noon today, T. W. Miles, married, aged 34, tripped, and an engine passed over both his legs. .He was' taken by train to the Invercargill Hospital' for an operation. A later message states that he died at 11.20 p.m.

YOUNG WOMAN’S DEATH. AUCKLAND, September 25. After hearing four witnesses at the inquest at Wellington on Inez Pearl Hunt, aged 25, who died in the hospital on September 10, Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., adjourned the inquiry till Thursday to enable efforts to be made to obtain further evidence. The medical evidence this morning indicated that there had been illegal interference.

WOMAN FATALLY INJURED. . AUCKLAND, September 25. Fatal injuries were received by an elderly woman, Mrs Mary Laing, of 16 Picton street, Ponsonby, as the result of being knocked down by a taxi in Khyber Pass about 10.45 to-night.

DEATH UNDER ANTESTHETIC. GISBORNE, September 25. .An inquest was held to-day into the circumstances surrounding the death of a 16-year-old boy, Joseph Arthur Parker, which occurred at a private hospital on September 17, when the patient was under "the anaesthetic. The acting coroner (Mr A. G. Beere, J.P.) and a jury of four returned a verdict that death was due to" asphyxia while under an anaesthetic and that all reasonable care and all the usual precautions appeared to have been taken in connection with the operation.

GAS POISONING. AUCKLAND, September 26. A verdict that the deceased committed suicide by gas poisoning was returned by Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., coroner, at the adjourned inquest concerning the death of Charles Henry Wallis, aged 25. The deceased was an Englishman, and had been in New Zealand only a short time. He was - found dead in : a city flat on Monday evening, there being a gas tube leading from the kitchenette into the bedroom, where he was lying.- He was last seen alive about mid-daj- on September 19. He had no relatives in the Dominion.

CAR FALLS INTO RIVER. WHAKATANE, September 26. A motor car accident occurred in Waimana Gorge, as a result of which Alfred Robert Fallows, a traveller for the Goodyear Tyre Company, with headquarters at Hamilton, lost his life. Mr. Kirk, a settler at Waimana, was riding through the gorge and noticed the marks of a car leading over' the bank on Douglas Hill. On investigating, he saw a car submerged in the Waimana River, 40 feet below, and reported to the police at Taneatua. The car was recovered from the riyer this morning, and th e body of the victim of the accident was recovered later, about three-quarters of a mile lower down the river.

MINE WORKERS’ DEATH. GREYMOUTH, September 26. At the inquest thio morning on Samuel Glasson, who was killed at the Blackball mine bins on Tuesday, being crushed between railway trucks and a prop supporting the bins, the verdict was death from shock caused by injuries. The coroner (Mr W. Meldrum, S.M.) added: “The evidence shows that the closeness of the props to the lines is a source of danger to those stopping trucks at the bins, and that the brakes on the wagon which caused the accident were defective.

FATAL MOTOR SMASH. CHRISTCHURCH, September 26. _ Giving his verdict at the conclusion to-day of the inquest into the death of Edward Reynolds, of Wellington, ; who,. died in the Christchurch Hospital as a result of injuries received in a motor smash at the gates of the Paparua prison on August 12, the coroner (Mr E. D. Mosley) had comments to pass both on the evidence which had been 'heard during the inquest and on the circumstances of the accident The verdict returned was that Reynolds’s death was due to concussion of the brain and bronchial pneumonia, attributable to his low condition caused by injuries received as a result of a. motor car in which he was being driven Coming into collision with a lorry driven by Ernest Laurie Page on the West Coast road, at the entrance, to . the Paparua prison? “Anyone who was listening to the evidence given by the witness Page,” said. Mr Mosley, “ could not but be struck with the promptitude and candidness with which he answered all the questions put to him. This was in contrast with at least one previous, witness in the coroner’s court yesterday. After listening carefully to the evidence. I have come to the conclusion, and I think no unbiased person could come to any other conclusion from the evidence, that the. motor car in. which Reynolds was riding, and which was driven oy Vernon Clemens, was travelling at an un-safe-speed. Having regard to all the circumstances, and also that the motor lorry driven by Ernest Laurie Page,, although evidently- carefully driven, was steered too close to the eastern wall, it was exceedingly carefully driven in the circumstances.” - ' ’’ BOY ELECTROCUTED. WELLINGTON, September 27. Thomas David Allanson, aged 14, was electrocuted at Lower Hutt. Apparently a wire was stretched between two poles from near the top of one, and tied to the other, a few feet from the ground. The boy was swinging On this, it is surmised, and caused it to come into contact with live wires. The "wire was on railway property.