ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Southland Times, Issue 19517, 17 May 1922, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

GIRL SEVERELY INJURED. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, May 16. A shocking accident on the wharf inflicted serious injuries on a little girl, Phyllis Dean, aged 9 years. A piece of steel projecting from a lorry caught her in the neck, crushed her against a shed and badly gashed her throat. Her condition is serious. DEATH DURING DENTAL OPERATION DUNEDIN, May 16. William Riddell, aged fifteen years, who resided with his widowed mother at 133 Castle street, died at the Dental School today while under an anaesthetic for the purpose of having teeth extracted. An inquest will be held to-morrow. FIREMAN’S MYSTERIOUS DEATH. INQUEST ADJOURNED. CHRISTCHURCH, May 16. An inquest touching the death of Charles Clarke, 32, a fireman oh the steamer Whangape, who died at the Christchurch Hbspital on Sunday, was opened before the Coroner, Mr H. Y. Widdowson, S.M., to-day. Dr C. J. Campbell, senior House Surgeon at the Christchurch Hospital said deceased was admitted to the Hospital in a semiconscious condition. A detailed examination failed to give any clue to his exact complaint. His condition did not alter and the doctors were at a loss to decide what was wrong with him. It occurred to witness that he might be drugged. The only treatment given him was for his bowels. He died early on Sunday morning. Dr Re ary, House Surgeon corroborated the evidence of the previous witness. The condition of deceased, he said was consistent with drugging. William Munday, fireman in the steamer Kaikoura, said deceased was a single man. He was a returned soldier and had been gassed. Since his return he had not been in good health. As a post mortem operation had failed to show the cause of death a microscopical examination of the brain would be made. The inquest was accordingly adjourned. RUN OVER BYv TRAIN MAN KILLED AT LEVEL CROSSING (Per United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, May 16. Ernest Arnold, single, 62, was killed at the Sockburn railway crossing by the south express to-night. Arnold, who suffered severely from rheumatism, was walking over the crossing, and evidently failed to see the incoming train owing to mist and rain. The express was twenty minutes late, which probably caused Arnold to keep a less careful watch.