CASUALTIES.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 17943, 30 April 1928, Page 2

CASUALTIES.

RUN DOWN BY CAR. • By Telee»-*Ph —Pres* Association-. WANGANUI, April' 27. Mr and Mrs Arthur Cooper were run into by-a car, said, to We been driven by TV A. F. Symes, ok Sea field, oii 'the Springvaleßoud to-night. Both were sent to hospital, their condition being serious. Mr Cooper was operated "oh on admission. They - have six -children, ranging from 18 months to. 13 years. BAD CAR ACCIDENT. By TeGcraph — Press Association. ■TAIHAPE, April 28. At an early, hour this morning a car containing two young men, Walter Warren and Robert Boyd, ran over a bank on the road at Bennett’s siding, north of Taihape. The car skidded on some shingle. Boyd was pinned beneath the car. Warren-, who sustained a broken jaw and nose, and had an eye gouged out, struggled to the farmhouse of Mr C. H. Baker for assistance. Both men were conveyed to hospital. Warren’s condition is serious, and Boyd received injuries to his back. The car fell about thirty feet. KILLED BY PASSING TRAIN. By Tel seraph—Press Ai/ociatlon. INVERCARGILL, April 29. An inque>rt-ivng. held on Saturday touching the death of Frederick Ross, a railway surfaceman who dietd after admission to Southland hospital Oil April 21st, from Morton Mains, where be was involved in an accident in which a railway jigger was wrecked by the ermine of a, train. Medical evidence showed ■ that deceased had an extensive fracture at the base of the skull. -James Staunton,- driver of the tram, said the train was running 30 miniytes late, when it came into Morton Mains, n ■'a deceased might- have thought it had already passed. It was quite possible that deceased was moving the from, the main lino on to the parking rails when it was struck. Tlio Coroner returned a verdict that deceased died from injuries received through a trolley ho was removing from the line on to the parking line being -•truck by a passing train.

INFANT FATALLY SCALDED,

By Telegraph:—Press Association. INVERCARGILL, Afiril 29. A coronial inquiry was held on Saturday concerning the death of J .me Faulkner, an , eighteemmonths.dd infant who died,on April 21 at the Southland hospital, .nearly a mouth after being admitted; from Tuatapere. where she was badly scalded, when a kettle of boiling water overturned. The Coroner returned a verdict that death was due to shock, the result of scalds; j,.„. ~ V