TRAGIC DEATHS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15594, 10 August 1921, Page 8

TRAGIC DEATHS.

Moioil,! a I'Ai.rhE--. 'Per Press ASsnrlatJon.) WELUXGTON, ifift. night. Another motor fatality occurred in Hu my to-night. Benjamin Victor P.evan, -on of Benjamin Bevan. of 0-alhric f-ttwM, I hurmluii, was knocked down by a motor car driven bv Atnslev Bertram, a power mechanic. The/childY, skull was Iraetured and he died 1 fifteen minutes alt.er the accident. The hoy was play, mg im the pavement, and suddenly run ml I'j tin; sine!, J . , tt.M.UH'. lasi uStg.li t. I. impie.st ai 'ii'ifiukii yisteidify i into tlio dentil o! the iniaiii foii: one ; inoiuli old, ol niitlvi l piimitg numed Lick us. it was Mated thill I hi: nlotiicr ‘ and another Maori wdiilini were wheeling prams oil out* side of t iiM ni tin road ' which was newly shingled in the middle; A car driven by ii tilfo jcr’.-i wi ie, Alls IE pbmioliy*; eiiirit; illoiig behind tlienl. (hie (notlier turned out of the track io i lie right and Mrs Kickus turned into ilic shingle. the car also turned that. way. and, before it could be stopped, it. struck jthe pram broadside and threw the infant into the shingle, death following shortly alter from concussion of the brain. 'J’be coroner’s- finding recounted I lie facts and added a rider that car drivers should be licensed on proof of ability to drive. ABSORBING SMALL DOSES OF POISON Per Prec« A Scoria i inn .1 TIMARU, iiist night. At the inquest ;it I'emnka into the death of a. rabbiter, the medical evidence was to the-effect that in mixing strychnine poison once- a week without precautions deceased absorbed enough in small doses to result- in his death. A verdict to this effect was relurned.