CASUALTIES.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18518, 15 March 1930, Page 17 (Supplement)

CASUALTIES.

FATAL FALL FROM PONY. By Telegraph—Press Association. HASTINGS, March 14. Suzanne Couper, a nine-year-olcl daughter of Mr W. A. Couper, of Otane, was killed yesterday afternoon owing to her pony bolting and throwing her heavily. MANGLED IN BELTING. By Telegraph—Pres* Asaoclakion. AUCKLAND, March 14. A bricklayer, Peter Gizdaveich, was caught in the belting at the New Era Brick and Tile Coy’s works at Waitakerei and badly mangled. He died in hospital. ON WRONG SIDE. By Telegraph—Press Association. NAPIER, March 14. In returning a formal verdict at the inquest on Mrs Catherine Brightwell, of Taumarunui, killed on December 28, through a car driven by her husband going over the bank of the NapierTaupo road, after hitting another car, the Coroner, Mr A. Mowlem, S.M., commented that from the evidence it appeared that Brightwell rounded the bend on the wrong side. He commented that the evidence threw strong doubt on the testimony of the husband. Two witnesses had sworn that Brightwell rounded the bend on the wrong side. RAILWAY FATALITY. By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, March 14. At the inquest on Samuel Prestidge (65), casual labourer, killed by a train at the Thomdon railway yards on March 4, the Coroner returned a verdict of accidental death. The evidence showed that deceased was killed at a spot where it was customary for employees to cross the tracks.

KILLED ON RAILWAY. By Telegraph—Press -Association. WELLINGTON, March 14. Raymond Brown, (17), apprentice fitter at the railway workshops was run over and P illed by a shunting train at Woburn at 7.35 this morning. The body was terribly mutilated. LOSES A HAND. By Telegraph—Press Association. STRATFORD, March 14. E. L. McCullough lost a hand through an accident while trimming hedges. KILLED BY HORSE. By Telegraph—Press Association. THAMES, March 14. A young man named William Knox (27), a farm hand at Waitakaruru, was kicked to death by a trotting horse, which he was driving near Kopu yesterday. Knox harnessed up a fouryear old trotter, the property of Mr Sam Woodroofe, taking it out for exercise. The horse bolted, and Knox was thrown forward on to the horse’s heels, which inflicted terrible injuries to the head and face. Knox was sent to hospital, but died this morning. ANOTHER RAILWAY FATALITY. By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, March 14. A special goods train running from Maungaturoto to Helensville this afternoon, struck a jigger on which w'ere Ken Highfield (24), labourer, and another man. Highfield was killed outright, while the other man, who was thrown clear, escaped with bruises.