ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13349, 14 December 1906, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATAL ITIES.

- Per Press" Association. " •Wanganui, December 13l - -An "in^uos't " was rh%ld' 'tofday : - on ■ "an old man named Conmell,,- who- died 'in. the. hospical , yesterday. Evidence was given ihat^ decease^l's leg r as .considerably burned on Guy Fawkes' day by a j^ractical joker putting : a cracker in his poctet/ The doctor said i this did not cause - death, $.n-\ ;the.Jury returned a verdict of dc£.th from' causes. " • Axickland, December 13. » A three-year-old son oi Mr E.* Qoppins, a cabinct-^mak-er, had a, marvellous escape from death ,this evening in Hobson-^treet. H"e ran across )the traudines, and when ,ho had iusb -crossed, turned to ■ run back, ' and slipped directly in front of a car going.ufp Hobson-street. The child ' ijyas knocked dawn and passed under lifeguard. To the, astonishment of* the onlookers, when picked from xinder the car he was alive, and with' |the "exception of a few bruises was uninjured. • !