SEAMAN INJURED IN FALL

Southland Times, Issue 23734, 4 February 1939, Page 5

SEAMAN INJURED IN FALL

RESCUED FROM VERANDA BY FIREMEN (United Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, February 3. The police, fire brigade and St. John Ambulance all congregated in Lichfield street early yesterday morning to rescue Frederick Cable, an able seaman, 36 years old, of H.M.S. Leith, who was found about 5 o’clock in the morning by 'a nightwatchman lying on _ the veranda roof of a building with a fractured right leg. Some unknown errand had. taken Cable up the fire escape on the building during the night and he had fallen off, landing on the veranda roof below, fracturing his leg and being knocked unconscious. The noise of his fall which occurred about midnight attracted the attention of a policeman on patrol below but after a fruitless search for the cause of the disturbance the constable moved on. About 4.30 a.m. when he recovered consciousness Cable began to rattle energetically on the windows near him and succeeded in attracting the attention of the nightwatchman who summoned the. police. It was found impossible to rescue the injured man without a ladder so the fire brigade was Called and he was quickly brought down and placed in the waiting ambuIclIlCO Cable is now in the Christchurch Public Hospital, his condition being satisfactory.

MOTOR-CYCLIST DIES FROM INJURIES (United Press Association) ASHBURTON, February 3. Louis Stanley Harper, aged 17, a shop assistant and a son of Mr and Mrs H. S. Harper died in hospital as the result of injuries received on Saturday. Harper, who was on his motor-cycle shot over the handlebars when applying the brakes to avoid a collision with a motor-car in the borough and struck the paved road with his head and shoulders. WOMAN’S BODY FOUND ON RAILWAY (United Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, February 3. The body of a first-class railway passenger, Mrs J. M. Shelley, of Hawarden, was discovered on the permanent way near the Waltham railway crossing at 6.30 a.m. today. The woman was dead and she must have been killed almost instantaneously. She had severe head injuries and suffered terrible arm wounds, z The victim was a passenger on the early steamer express train for Lyttelton. No one saw the accident and the train went on without her disappearance being noticed. WHARF WORKER’S DEATH AFTER INJURY (United Press Association) NAPIER, February 3. Knocked from a railway truck during the discharging of a vessel at the breakwater last evening at 8 o’clock William John Culley, an elderly man, a watersider, died one hour and a-half later in the hospital from severe head injuries. Salt was being discharged in slings from the Kauri and deceased was struck by a sling, thrown from the truck on to another truck and then on to the wharf. SPEEDWAY DRIVER BADLY HURT (United Press Association) AUCKLAND, February 3. The American midget car driver, Elbert Arthur Turner, was seriously injured when his car skidded into the safety fence during a practice run at Western Springs speedway track this afternoon. Turner is 33 and unmarried. He suffered injuries to his back. His condition is serious. BOY FALLS IN FRONT OF TRAIN (United Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, February 3. A 10-year-old boy, A. Mclvor, of Oxford street, Dunedin, had his right leg severed just below the knee when he fell in front of an incoming train at the Christchurch railway station at 1.10 p.m. today. The boy was spending a holiday in Christchurch.