ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13980, 16 August 1909, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

A SOLITARY DEATH. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, August, 15. A large' party was engaged to-day scouring the hills east ot tac harbour in search of Mrs Penny, who had been missing from Lower Hutt since August 3rd. Her body was found five miles inland from Day's Bay. She had apparently been dead about a week. CORONERS' ■ INQUESTS. CHRISTCHTJRCH, August 14. At the adjourned inquest on the body of John Edward Robinson, held at the morgue to-day, the Coroner, ifter hearing the evidence of Mr A. A. flickerton, Government analyst, Dr. Symes, and other'witnesses, returned a verdict that death was caused through alcoholic poisoning. Mr Bailey, Coroner, held an inquest at Springfield yesterday, concerning the death of William Rushton, a farmer, who was found dead in a paddock yesterday afternoon. The evidence showed that Rushton was hoeing turnips when he was gored by a call, the horn of the animal opening the femoral vein near the thigh, death resulting from loss of bloou. A verdict of accidental death was returned.

An inquest touching the death of Thomas i?'ranklin Main, a cabman, who met his death from injuries received by being thrown from hi? vehicle through a collision with an ambulance van , yesterday, was held today. AVilliam Metcalfe, who was driving the ambulance at the time of the accident, said that when Hearing the show grounds, someone wheeling a, bicycle stepped off the footpath, and he had to pull his horse up. Immediately he pulled his rein he felt a bump, and looking round, saw that Main's cab had collided with the waggon, striking the front wheel. Witness was on his left side, and was close to the s:de channel. Main should have. passed witness easily. The Ooroner leturnea a verdict tnat death was caused from shock through -Main falling off his cab. MOTOR CAR SMASH. - A narrow escape from what nearly proved a serious accident happened at lemuka about 3.30 p.m. yesterday afternoon. As "Miss Mendelson and a friend were returning from Christchurch in their motor they were proceeding down King street and at the ' intersection oi vVilnihurst road were passing an approaching horse and trap, and at the same time overtaking a. boy leisurely riding a bicycle. The driver of the car, who was on her right side of the road, endeavoured to effect a safe passage when the lad on the bicycle shot right across the track of the car. It seemed a foregone conclusion that' the boy would be run over, but Miss Mendelson, with commendable presence of mind, closed on her safety 1 rake and ran the car into the footpath with serious consequences. The axle box of the fore left wheel struck the telegraph pole and the front of the engine the kerbed footpath—and the car was quickly a wreck. The occupants suffered a severe jolt, and it is fortunate that no serious

consequences were the outcome, as broken glass was very much in evidence. The occupants were taken on their iuurncy by Mr El worthy, who shortly after the accident hanpened to come on the scene.