ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 68, 13 November 1912, Page 3

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Wlrarigarei Mail 'writes;' The cyclist was ridi’figi. free-wheel' ckßa hill, .and the momentum 'gained caused a good speed. The cyclist turned to say “Goodinbriimg'” ‘W av ! pakkifig Y - J adc[dairitaiiCe,; and as he did .so his cycle struck a fire-plug, the''concrete' case’’ of w hich. stands l fitfet inches clearfabove tlio' level of the r'dad.' The nihefbihe skidded for some' fc&JNnd' ifjie#le : and rider fell in, a heap in the road. It was first thoughts that Mr- O’Shaunnessy (railway clerk) 1 was seriously injured, but be revived after a slTprt time. It was found that ho bad ’sustained a surface wound on the. head; a black eye, a sprained thumb, and abrasions on the chest and hands. The concrete' block of the fire-plug has been a source of considerable anxiety to cyclists for some months past, and as Mr O’Shaunnessy is consulting bis solicitor in regard to the position, it is likely that further may he heard ol the matter.

A peculiar case of mistaken identity occurred at Newcastle (New South Wales), on October 30tb. (A. young woman about 20 years of ago was seen to walk into a dam in a paddock of! Darby Sheet. A young man dived in and brought her out, but she was then dead. The body was taken to the morgue, and identified by a Mrs King, of Merewether, as that of her daughter Beryl. About half an hour afterwards Beryl board of her reported death, and hurried to the police station where she learned that her mother had gone home, fully believing that she was drowned. In the meantime the police, at the request of Mrs

King, had sent a telephone message to the Maitland police to inform her husband, who is in Maitland, of their daughter’s supposed death. The body of the dead woman was later identified as that of Mary Burrows, lately residing with her parents at Jesmond, near Lambton.