ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Southland Times, Issue 17607, 23 March 1914, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

SHOOTING GALLERY MISHAP. (Per United Press Association). VBW PLYMOUTH. March 21. • At the inquest into the fatality at % shooting pall cry at Tariki Horticultural Show, important evidence was given by Sergeant-Major Bond, of the Defence Staff, regarding the use of Moms tubes in service rifles or of pea rifles. He said that when using the Morris tub* and suitable ammunition, it was necessary to have at least three feet six inches of dry earth as a bull. If supported by timber an inch thick back and. front two feet six inches would be sufficient and if sheet iron were used twenty inches wa-s sufficient. The difference between wet and dry earth was that a. bullet would penetrate ten inches of dry earth, but eighteen inches of wet. It was safe to say that ordinary Morriai tube cartridges or those used in a pea, rifle would kill at fifty yards. Eleven, inches of earth and two of timber, as was used in this case, was unsafe. What he said about the penetrating power of bullets was the result of his own recent experiments, and was in no manual. A verdict of accidental death was r<* turned, us the coroner said the knov ledge of the penetrating power of bu lets was not general, the committees « ing precautions, which had been satiefa tory in previous years. WHARF LABOURERS DEATH. AUCKLAND. March 21. Roy Howarth, aged twenty-six year* a married man with two children, while assisting in discharging cargo in the Ki mu taka was crushed by a whieh fractured his left le„ below th* knee. He died this afternoon. FOUND DEAD. AUCKLAND, March 25. The body of a man about 40 years old, was found this morning at the foot of the cliffs at Orakei. death being ©vndentIv due to a fall from the top of the cliffs a distance of about 20 feet on to the rocks below. His identity is un. known. LITTLE BOY KILLED. WANGANUI, March 21. A six-year-old boy named Leslie GoP» nell was run over by a motor car yesterday afternoon and died in the hospital this morning. A FATAL PALL. WELLINGTON, March' ?*. ' William H. Geary, a middle aged raaa employed as a wharf labourer, died at the hospital to-day. as the result of Injuries, received on Saturday week. Whlla in the act of climbing into an express in the street he slipped and fell on hi* head, sustaining concussion of the bra^n.