ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Southland Times, Issue 21196, 24 September 1930, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

DONKEYMAN’S DEATH. (Pei- United Press Association.) Westport, September 23. Allan Wishart, aged 30 years, a married man with one child and employed as donkeyman on the Kornata, was found dead at his residence this morning, lying in front of the range with a .blanket over his head and a gas tube neat' his mouth. CHILD SUCCUMBS TO INJURIES. Palmerston North, September 23. The death occurred in the Public Hospital tills morning of Betty Albrey. aged 7 years, a daughter of Mr R. T. Albrey, of Oroua Downs, as the result of injuries sustained when she was knocked down by a motor car at Oroua Downs when walking home from school on September 15. BIN HAND FATALLY CRUSHED. Greymouth, September 23. An accident resulting fatally occurred at 11 a.m. to-day at the Blackball mine bins, the victim being Samuel Glasson, aged 50 years, single. After uncoupling two trucks he stepped back and was crushed, between the advancing trucks and the bin pillar, sustaining a fractured pelvis and other injuries, from which he died at 6.20 p.m. at the Greymouth Hospital. A native of Kumars, he had been for many years bin hand at Blackball. INQUEST INTO WATCHMAKER’S DEATH. Auckland, September 23. The inquest was opened td-day into the death of Charles Henry Wallis, aged 25 years, who was found* dead in a flat in the city last night with a gas tube leading from the kitchenette to the room in which he was found. Wallis was a watchmaker and had been employed recently as a jeweller’s traveller. He left England about nine months ago and went to Sydney. He arrived in New Zealand only recently and had been living in flats since August 6. Beyond these facts little is known about him. As far as is known he had no relatives in New Zealand. When he first took the flat he frequently played the gramophone all day long. When Wallis paid the week’s rent last Friday evening that was the last time he was seen until last night. No information about Wallis was given at the inquest which was opened by Mr Hunt, S.M. After evidence had been given by the manager of the flat?, the inquiry was adjourned until Friday. A letter from a girl in Whangarei was found in the dead man’s room. 'She was communicated with and said that she had met Wallis in Whangarei earlier this year. He had worked in the town for a time, but she knew little about him.