ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Star (Christchurch), Issue 10439, 19 April 1912, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A FATAL HIDE.. [Per Phkss Association.] FEILDJNG, April 19. Walter Viles, aged eleven, was riding to scliool at Waiata this morning on a brokenr-down racehorse, which he had not'previously ridden, when the' horse bolted and, stumbling, threw tlio bov, whose foot was held by a stirrup. lie waf. dragged four hundred yards, ami when picked up his liead was smashed to a pulp. The boy immediately pirwl. His sister witnessed the whole occurrence.

SUICIDE. [Pkr Press Association*.] HAWEKA, April 19. Alice Norton, a .single woman twenty years of age. and a daughter of the Assistant Inspector of Post Offices, committed suicide at her brother's residence yesterday by hanging". Deceased left a note that she would be found in a grape-house, where the body was discovered in the evening suspended from a beam. INQUEST. [Pkr Prmb Association.] PALMERSTON NORTH. April 19. Tho inquest, on tho body of Percy Field, the victim of the Longburn motor accident, was opened before Mr A. D. Thomson, 8.M.. district coroner, and a. jury .this morning. The first witness wa,s Downes, the station master, who was standing on the road with Field wheu the latter was knocked down. lie stated that neither of them saw the car till it whs within ten pace;! of them. Deceased jumped to ono side and witness to the other with the remilt that deceased was knocked down. Witness said that the car had two lights but they wero not very bright He thought they were kerosene lights. Deceased was carried about forty paces. Witness said that the driver informed him that the car was going only ten mihs an hour, but lie had replied that it ttppeared to be nearer thirty miles. Both witness and deceased were sober. Witness admitted that both had had twelve drinks each during the day, commencing with four at 10.30 a.m.. three at dinner time, three at (3.30 and two at 9.45.