ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12814, 13 July 1912, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

i rex fret* Atwuciatiuu.) J AUCKLAND, this day. j A young man, Clarence Lamoert ( Wociiward, aged 01, Mas found dead m bed m his parents' x-esidenee. He had ' Ls'th comphuning of illness for some time. The cause is unknown; and an inqucso is necessary. WELLINGTON, this day. A" iuquest was held by Dr. AicAridxur concerning, the' death of William Robert ' Plici-. who was decapitated on the rail- j way line at Thorndon recently. A verdicl was returned that deceased was killed by being run over by a train,} having thrown himself m front of it. j A woman ; .ilapied.,Elizabet^l Clifford, I aged' ; so, died suddenly m a house m j Larmi won street early this morning. At; 5 o'clock a man -who , was' living m ih<i\ house discovered there was something ! wrotig with the deceased^ and he com- ! munura'ed with Dr. Porter, but when. the doctor arrived the woman was. dead, j Dr. Porter found that death -was due to ; natural causes, brought about by exctv*- j sive i.lcoholic drinking. There were no roarks of violence on the body .-*' No in- ! 'quest will be held, the doctor certifying that death was due to natural causes, i Mr James Brodie : («tys the, l;am»ru j Mail), who was injured through being throvn off the railway |me by the cowcatcher, of a locomotive, died m the hospital on Sunday. ; ' j A resident of Moeraki, Wanaka Weka, | hatl the misfortune to break, his leg under distressing circumstances (says tho ( Oaniuru Mail). He /had be«n visiting j the house of a relative, where a niece, the victim of the late .burning accident, 'j i lay lead, and when ' returning to hisj •own home m the darkness'' stumbled, over! la ro iu;li piece of ground. I j , A little girl named .Kathleen AMcLood, j . aged four years and two months, was ( I nccic'entally killed m Helena, 'street, . Caver sham. She w.as skipping with some other girls on. the footpath, when, a covered-in van, driven by George Marshall, m the employ of Messrs Bray Bros., Crawford street, passed down tlie strr-ct some. 9ft from, the kerb. The van had almost, passed the girls when the ' drivi'r felt a jolt, and, stopping his hovs3, jumped down. He found the I little girl lying about a. yard from his whe.4, bleeding very profusely from the. ' nose and head. He picked her up and carried, her to her home across the street, but death must have beeit practically instantaneous. Dr. Evans Avas called m, but she was dead before his arrival, the base of her skull i having > probably been fractured. The father is, j William McLeod, a carpenter, empioy- ; fed <;n the railway.