ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12688, 9 July 1919, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

NORTH ROAD FATALITY. VICTIM IDENTIFIED. Tho man who was found seriously injured on the North Road, Belfast, on Saturday - evening, and, died, in , the Hospital, has been identified as Robert Betsom.

It is stated that the deceased, who was a labourer, had been staying with his sister in the Rangiora district, and started out on Saturday morning on a visit to Christchurch. Two sisters of the deceased live in Christchurch. CARRIER INJURED. James Leonard, a well-known Ashburton town carrier, while in the Ashburton Gasworks yesterday, getting a load of coke, was pinned between his cart and a post, with the result that his arm was fractured and ho was otherwise badly bruised and shaken. FATAL FALL FROM A TRAP. Mr James Cow, District Coroner, held an inquest at Methven yesterday touching the death of Francis Arthur Thomas Piercey, aged sixty-six years, who was killed on Monday evening through being thrown out of bis trap. Evidence was given showing that the deceased left Newman’s stables, in his trap, shortly after 5 p.m., and a little while afterwards James Edwin Carr, a school hoy, heard a runaway on the Main Road and saw deceased fall from the trap as the horse was at full gallop. The evidence of Dr M’Kee was to the effect that deceased had dislocated his neck and there was severe hemorrhage of the brain. A verdict was returned that deceased was accidentally killed through being thrown from bis trap. °

FOUND IN THE HARBOUR. [Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, July 8The body of AH William Smith, head of the firm of Smith and Smith painters and decorators, was found floating in the harbour to-day. Deceased had been missing since SaturiT , Tfc , is su PPosed that he' tell off the wharf when going to catch a steamer for Day’s Bay. where he had been living for about six months.