CASUALTIES.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18822, 10 March 1931, Page 11

CASUALTIES.

SCOUTMASTER DROPS DEAD. By Telegraph—Press Association HASTINGS, March 9. While transacting business in a shop here at noon to-day, Herbert Batram Dunlop, a prominent Salvationist, Scoutmaster of the Frimley Troop, and an ex-Member of the First Auckland infantry in the Great War, dropped dead of heart failure. It is a pathetic coincidence that deceased attended a Scout rally at Wellington on Saturday week, and received official condolences on the loss of the Assistant Scoutmaster and three members of his troop in the earthquake. Deceased had been suffering from overwork since the ’quake. TRIMMER LOST OVERBOARD. By Telegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND, March 9 H. Sellars, a trimmer on board the Tainui, disappeared during the voyage to Auckland and it is presumed that he was lost overboard. DEATH DURING OPERATION. By Telegraph—Press Association GISBORNE, March 9. Josephine Marguerette Herries (9), Tolaga Bay, died whilst undergoing an operation for appendicitis in the Cook Hospital. CARS IN COLLISION. By Telegraph—Pres*- Association TE AROHA,, March 9. A large motor car, driven by Alfred Hedges, of Hamilton, collided with another car driven by Miss Maud Johansen, of Waihou. The former car, containing six people, completely capsized, and an elderly man, Mr Sneddon, was seriously injured, and Mrs Sullivan’s right foot was injured. Both reside at Hamilton, and were conveyed to hospital there. BATHER DROWNED, By Telegraph—ness Association OTAKI, March 9. A 13-year-old boy, Herbert Jamieson, was drowned on Saturday afternoon while bathing off the Rangiuru beach. FATAL COLLISION. By Telegraph—Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, March 9. James McMahon (35), of Sydenham, contractor, was killed this morning when a motor cycle, of which he was riding in the sidechair, collided with a truck in Belfast. George Mason, the rider of the motor cycle was uninjured. CAR ROLLS OVER BANK. -By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, March 9. Two passengers were injured when a motor car went over a bank in Wadestown. Three other occupants, including the driver, escaped unhurt. The injured are:— Miss Erica Hazelwood (19), Mirimar, fractured jaw, fractured arm, head injuries. Harry Murphy (23), Mirimar, head injuries, struck by motor car and carried a distance on the bonnet before falling to the ground. Hugh Arthur Kreyl (19), of Petone, received a fractured base of the skull and died while being taken to hospital. LIFT FATALITY. The tragic ’ death of Mrs Sidney Smith, a patient in St. George’s Hospital (Christchurch), occurred on Sunday, following fatal injuries received when she was being brought down in her bed by means of the electric lift from the second floor to the first floor after an attendance at chapel. While the bed was being taken from the lift by the two sisters in charge of it, the lift suddenly started to move upwards, taking the foot of the bed with it, and the helpless patient was thrown to the foot of the lift well 18 feet below. She was fatally injured, and died about eight o’clock, two hours after the accident occurred. Mrs Smith, whose home is at Cross Street, Linwood, had been a patient in the hospital for the past 64 weeks. She was 52 years of age. The sister at the foot of the bed inside the lift pressed the stop button as soon as it began to move, but the machinery did not respond, and the lift continued to rise. DOUBLE SUICIDE TRAGEDY. Mangled by the fall of about 300 feet from the top of the cliffs at Scarborough, near Sumner, the body of Claude Hargood Boundy was recovered by a party which went round to the foot of the cliffs in a boat on Sunday afternoon. The body was found about a quarter of a mile from the place where that of the girl, Muriel McDonald, who disappeared with Boundy, was found. In Boundy’s pocket-book, it is understood, was a note indicating that the double tragedy was the outcome of a suicide pact. Both the man and girl disappeared on Thursday evening, and the first clue to their whereabouts after their families grew worried about them was the discovery of Boundy’s motor-cycle near the cliffs at Taylor's Mistake on Friday morning. Later, their overcoats were found, and then, in the afternoon, the girl’s body. The rough sea prevented a boat getting near the cliffs on Saturday, and one unsuccessful search was made on Sunday morning, but in the afternoon another party found the body. Boundy, a young man of about 23, was a carpenter who had been out of work for some time, and had later been on relief works. At the inquest, opened before the Coroner, Mi’ E. D. Mosley, yesterday, evidence of identification was given by Arnold Johnston, motor mechanic, a friend of Boundy’s. At 6 o’clock on Thursday evening, he said he saw Boundy, who was then by himself, on his motor-cycle, and spoke to him. The Inquest was adjourned sine die.