ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 5, 29 October 1924, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

MAORI RUN OVER BY CAR. Rotorua, October 1:8. A Maori named Robert Jacobs, while riding a bicycle in Tutanekai Street this afternoon, was run over by a car owned and driven bv -V •'. Isdale. The injured man was !■> :it to hospital. He had six ribs broken. Revere contusions of the legs and is suffering from shock, his condition being serious. WOMAN FOUND DEAD. Wanganui, October 28. Agnes Frances Bene-fiekl. aged forty-one, wife, of Percy Benefield, of ( Aramoho, was found dead in a room this afternoon. A gas tube, connected with a gas burner, which was turned on, was found near the body. wa s apparently in her usual health in the morning. LABORER'S FATAL FALL. Auckland, October 28. Alf. George Lambert, a laborer, was killed through a fall from a ladder at a building in course of erection at Anzac Avenue. He was standing on the ladder about eight feet from the ground when he overbalanced, striking his Jiea.d on. the ground, and apparently dislocating his neck. Death occurred in a few minutes.