ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Southland Times, Issue 20446, 26 March 1928, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

DOUBLE FATALITY. GIRL AND RESCUER DROWNED. (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, March 24. While bathing at Titahi Bay this afternoon a young man named J. Pope was drowned while attempting unsuccessfully to rescue a young lady whose body has not been recovered. The lady’s name is not yet known. A PEACEMAKER. Wellington, March 24. Following a fracas on the Port Hunter on Saturday night John Connor, a fireman, aged 39, was admitted to hospital with his throat cut. It is understood that Connor fried to separate some men who were fighting and that in doing so he received a gash on the throat from a razor blade. His condition is not serious. RUN OVER BY TRAIN. Wellington, March 24. A fatal accident occured at Johnsonville about 8 p.m. on Saturday night when a man whose identity has not yet been established was run over by a train. He was sent to Thorndon in the guard's van of the train and was taken to hospital by the free ambulance. The injured man, who was suffering from a fractured skull and injuries to the chest died shortly after admission. KILLED BY ’BUS. < Auckland, March 24. Through being knocked down by a motor ’bus in Broadway, Newmarket, last night Mrs Kate Hudson Williamson, aged 75, of Orakei Road, Remuera, sustained injuries to her head. She died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. CAR RUNS BACK. Palmerston North, March 24. A motor fatality occurred about three miles from Palmerston North on the Aokautere road on Saturday afternoon, a wellknown resident named A. C. Butzbach being killed when a car ran backwards over a steep bank. The car, which was driven by Mrs Butzbach stalled on the hill. The occupants got out to make an examination. Mr Butzbach re-entered the car, when it commenced to slip backwards down the hill end ran over a steep bank. Death was instantaneous. Deceased was married and was 46 years of age.

FOUND SHOT. New Plymouth, March 24. George Rogers, aged 61, a single man, with a farm at Tarurutangi, was found shot this morning in a workshop on his farm. He had been in ill-health for some time. Suicide is assumed. INQUEST CONCLUDED. Dunedin, March 24. That the deceased were accidentally killed by the overturning of a motor car in which they were travelling was the verdict of Mr H. J. Dixon S.M., sitting as Coroner at the resumed inquest this morning on the deaths of Joseph Biggins, Thomas Wilkins and Alexander Brown Armour who met their deaths while returning to Dunedin from the Tapanui races on February 1. .The Coroner added that the evidence showed the car to have been travelling at a fast rate.