TRAGIC CHAPTER

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10954, 1 October 1928, Page 5

TRAGIC CHAPTER

[ WEEK-END CASUALTIES RAILWAY PORTER KILLED. ; Electric Telegraph—Press Association AVANGANUI, September 29. A railway porter named Carlyle i Oronfield, aged 22, was knocked over by a row of trucks at the Wanganui station this morning. Six passed over him and one foot was severed. He died in a few minutes. He was crossing a line rolling a cigarette and watching another train and did not see the moving trucks. FRACTURED LEG. DUNEDIN, Last Night. John AA'ebster, aged 14, residing at Green Island, was knocked down by a motor cy'cle on the main south road at Green Island last night and received a fractured leg. He was admitted to hospital. FATAL MISHAP Xt NELSON. NELSON, Last Night. Mr G. A. Jlarkness. formerly chief inspector of schools, Nelson, died in hospital this morning as the result of serious injuries received through a collision with a service car while cycling in AA'aimea street yesterday. DEATH FOLLOWS COLLISION. INVERCARGILL, Last Night. Finlay McGillivray, aged 19, of AAj'est Plains, died in Southland hos-. pital on Saturday night from injuries received in a collision between a motor cy'cle he was riding and a lorry. The accident occurred on Friday' evening and McGillivray was admitted to hospital suffering from an injury to his jaw, a fracture of a leg and a fractured elbow. AVANGANUI RESIDENT DROWNED. AVANGANUI, September 29. Archibald Benton, 47, a widower, left last evening to cross th© river in a flat-bottomed boat to get a floating log. He was not seen again and it is presumed he was drowned. BABY’S NARROW ESCAPE. GISBORNE. September 29. i The infant daughter, aged three years, of Ma* Moore, licensee of the Rangatira Hotel, fell into the river and was swept downstream. Twenty minutes elapsed before she was found in a shallow offshoot of the main stream. Mainly 'through respiratory measures undertaken by Constable Gregan, which were continued for an hour before th© child showed a flicker of life, child is now. four day's, later, making a good recovery. The case is interesting in view of the large amount of water and mud which found its way down the child’s th loot. The quick action and the presence of mind of two girl guides, Aloira Reaney and Jean Gregan, were responsible for the child’s recovery' after being missed. FOUND DEAD. The death occurred y'esterday' under tragic circumstances of Air Harry' Aleadley, of Limerick Street, Palmerston North. When Airs Aleadly left home about 2 o’clock, her husband was in bed asleep, but on her return at 5 o’clock she discovered him lying on the couch of the kitchen dead, with a gas tube emitting gas nearby'. Deceased was a. baker b.v occupation and was 50 years of age. A OUTH KILLED FOUR PEOPLE. A'ANC'OUA'ER. September 28. A message from Edmonton states that Vernon Booker, aged 19 y'ears, was found guilty of murdering his mother, brother and two hired men on a farm at Nanville. Booker will be hanged on December 15. He confessed that h© committed the crime because his mother nagged at him about his sweetheart. AUSTRALIAN MURDER. SYDNEY. September 29. The Police Department is offering £2OO reward for the apprehension of the person who. shot mysteriously John Mnlholland, the school teacher at AA'olumia, on the south coast, a fortnight ago. Mnlholland was leaving a friend’s house at night and was lighting a cigarette, when a gunshot hit Lis mouth and he dropped dead. There is entire absence of motive and the police are baffled. AUCKLAND SENSATI ON. .AUCKLAND, September 29. Mt. Eden Road in the vicinity of the railway' station was the scene of a sensational hold-up by' two motor bandits at ten o’clock last night.

They' escaped in a motor after brandishing a revolver and threatening to shoot Mr Geo. T. Pearce, clothier and meicer. and his wife who were en rente to their home at 81 Alt. Eden read. In the darkness one of the men grabbed an attache case from Airs Pearce. Almost immediately' another man attacked the husband, striking him. He recovered in time to see the assailants running I across the road to an unlit car. Following quickly, he jumped on the running board. One man tried to get tli© car going. His companion produced a revolver and pointed it at Air Pearce’s bead and said: “Get off oi 1 11 shoot von.” Air Pearce steplied off anri the car dashed off at a high speed. This morning the car was found abandoned. It had been stolen. Tlie attache case contained over £5 in cash. FOXTON NATIVE DISAPPEARS. FOXTOX. Last Night. Ihe M.anawatu river has added another sad fatality to its number when a Maori man about 29 years of age. named Repuha Kemp. was drowned near Aprihama’s Pah about half a mile from the entrance of the Man an atu Bar last Saturday evening about 7 p.m. From what can be gathered Kemp was out whitebaitmg when he noticed his boat drifting down the river and went in after it.