ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 14038, 22 October 1909, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

TJIK DEADLY PUA-RJFLE. Pr««3 Association-By Telegraph-Copyrigh* SYDNEY, Oct. 21. Jhe Coroner, in holding an inquest on the body of a person who had been shot by a pea rifle, stated that no fewer than thirty-one persons had met their deaths in New Sou til Wales from a similar cause last year. SHOCKING INJURIES. Per Press Association. OAMARU, Oct. 21. While Robert Stewart was engaged in shunting this evening ho tripped and fell, two wheels of a carriage passing over a. portion of his body. The right leg and hip were iniured but to what extent is Jiofc yet known. The right arm was crushed and had to be amputated. GIRL STRANGLED. INVERCARGILL, Oct. 21. Hazel Foley, aged 9 years, was killed this afternoon by a window sash dropping on her neck. The girl with her sister was playing in the garden of Mrs Marshall, a neighbour, with the Marshall children when their mother went out at 4 o'clock, locking up the house. When she returned at 5.40 ?hc found Hazel with her head through the window frame, the outside sash restin'": on her neck. ' The window had ''"en left pronoed oi>en with a stick. TliA doctor said that death was due to strangulation. FOUND DEAD. The police at Queenstown report that. »• Chinaman named Wong Gong. round 'lead in a hut at Maori Point.