CASUALTIES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18555, 30 April 1930, Page 9

CASUALTIES

NEGLIGENT DRIVING. By Telegraph—Pre*» Association. HAMILTON. April 29. At the inquest into the death of Norman Stephen Bradley, who died after being knocked down by a car at Te Rapa on race day, the Coroner found that a car driven by August Herman Demler was driven negligently, and caused Bradley’s death. TAXI-DRIVER KILLED. By Telegraph—Pres* AaisWation. HAMILTON, April 29. Frank Joseph Martin (42), married, a taxi proprietor, of Auckland, was killed when the car he was driving, with two passengers, crashed over a bank near Taupiri last evening, the vehicle being submerged in 15 feet of water. Miss Marjorie Nidd (25 years), niece of the deceased, and Dorothy Lodge (10 years), experienced a miraculous escape, clambering through the window' of the enclosed car.

SUICIDE BY POISON. By Telegraph —Press Association. WANGANUI, April 29. James Duigan, aged 56, was found in the Moatoa Gardens this morning in a state of collapse with a bottle of poison alongside. He was ,sent to hospital, where he died before noon. MOTOR-CYCLIST KILLED. By Telegrap-i—Press Association. NEW PLYMOUTH, April 29. Fatal injuries were received by a Maori motor-cyclist. Tamaono Tuteuruoho, aged forty-three, a farmer at Okato, when his machine struck a tram car on the South Road at New Plymouth at 7 p.m. on Saturday. The street is wide and well lighted, and there is no explanation as to how the accident happened. An inquest was opened on Sunday and adjourned sine die.