ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VI, Issue 1624, 29 April 1919, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

A SAILOR DROWNED. Press Association. NAPIER, April 28. Michael McDonald, an elderly sailor, who hart just signed off the Koutunui, was drowned in the Iron Pot at Port Ahuriri this afternoon. He misjudged the distance between some railway trucks and a vessel, and fell into the water. He was recovered almost instantly by a stevedore named Fitzgibbqn, but was dead when brought on to the wharf. KNOCKED DOWNEY MOTOR CAR. WELLINGTON, April 28. Eric Shapcott, the young son of Mr George Shapcott, of the Harbour Board staff, died at the hospital yesterday from injuries sustained last Tuesday by being knocked down by a motor car driven by Lieut.-Colonel Leahy, N.Z.M.C. KILLED BY MOTOR CAR. ■WELLINGTON, April 29. An elderly woman, Mrs Margaret Reid, was knocked down by a motor car in John Street at 7 o'clock last evening, and admitted to the hospital, unconscious. She did not recover consciousness, and died four hours later. The motor was driven by Mr E. Williams, of Island Bay. FELL DOWN A HOLD. WELLINGTON, April 29. Patrick Fogarty, a waterside worker, who fell down the hold of the Kamona last week, died in the hospital. KILLED BY MOTOR CAR. WELLINGTON, April 29. At the inquest on the boy Eric Shapcott, who died from injuries received by being knocked down on the Hutt Road by a motor car driven by Dr. Leahy, a verdict was returned of accidental death, no i blame being attachable to the doctor.