MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 144297, 12 January 1914, Page 7

MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR

AUCKLAND DOCTOR INJURED. PEE PRESS ASSOCIATION. AUCKLAND. Jan. 11. Doctor 1L AV. King, a well-knonn Auckland practitioner, was the victim of a mysterious unci very severe accident last evening,, about nine o’clock. The motorman of a tram car, when descending Wellesley Street/ noticed the body of a man lying near the other sot of rails and stopped bis car to investigate. Major Dluggo and n member of the Medical Corps, who were the first to render assistance, found that the man was Dr. King, who was insensible and bleeding profusely from the right ear. but there were no marks of violence on .the head. The police having been summoned, Dr. King was taken on a stretcher to bis home in Symonds .Street, where Dr. H. Darks pronounced In’s case to be one of severe fracture of the base of Iho skull, and ordered him to the hospital. This afternoon Dr. King was still in an unconscious condition, ami his case was considered very critical. How the accident occurred is not known, hut it has been suggested that Or. King may have fallen from a tram car. No one, however, appears to have seen any such occurrence.