ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Southland Times, Issue 21195, 23 September 1930, Page 8

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

CHILD ACCIDENTALLY SHOT. (Per United Press Association.) Te Kuiti,. September 22. Jack Davey, aged 3 years, a son of C. R. Davey, of the staff of the Te Kuiti Hospital, was accidentally shot by his nine-year-old brother by a rifls which was kept for shooting cats, and which he had found in an out-room at the hospital on Saturday afternoon. The boys were playing together. Jack received the bullet in his lorehead and the brain was penetrated. His condition is critical. * FOUND DEAD IN BEDROOM. Auckland, September 22. The body of Charles Henry Wallis, aged 25 years, who resided at a block of flats in Lower Symonds street, -was found in his bedroom shortly after seven o’clock tonight. Apparently he had been dead for about three days. There was a gas tube leading from the kitchenette of his flat into the room where he was discovered. The deceased was last seen on Friday evening, when he paid the. week’s rent. The deceased was a recent arrival from England and had no relatives in the Dominion. VERDICT OF ACCIDENTAL DEATH. Gisborne, September 22. At rhe inquest to-day concerning the death of Roy Pearson, aged 17 years, a son of Mr S. J. Pearson,-who was drowned at Kaiti beach on Sunday through a dinghy capsizing, the evidence showed that the three occupants had been thrown into the water about 200 yards from the shore and had reached a submerged rock. The deceased ‘and his brother stood on it while the other man swam for the shore. The last-named, on hearing cries for help, went back and found the two swept off the rock. The deceased who could not swim, was never seen again. The Coroner (Mr Harper, 5.M.,) returned a verdict of accidental death and said that he would like to commend the two survivors, Victor Gilbert Pearson, brother of the deceased, and John Campbell Norris, brother-in-law, on the steps they took to rescue the' deceased.