ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12761, 3 October 1919, Page 3

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

CHILD KILLED. Three little children were playing in Clare Road, St Albans, at about 11-30 a.m. yesterday, when a cart driven by Leslie Fleming, employed by Mr John Cock, produce merchant, of Papanui Road, passed along the street. Fleming, in a statement made to the police, said that he first saw the children at a distance of about a chain, and he sang out to them to get out of the way. He took no further notice until he felt a bump and on investigation found that the cart had run over a child. The mother of the child was quickly on the scene, and medical aid was summoned. The child was in a serious state, and was removed to the Christchurch Hospital, where it died at 3.15 p.m.

The name of the little victim was Sedgley Malmanche, a two-and-a-half-year-old daughter of Georg© de Maimanche, of 47, Clare, Road, St Albans, a tramway employee. An inquest will be held to-day.

CYCLISTS COLLIDE. As a result of a collision between a motor-cycle, driven by William Wicks, of 137, Ensors Road, Linwood, and a bicycle, ridden by James Inkster, of 26, Richmond Terrace, which occurred at the intersection of Hereford Street and Montreal Street at 4.40 o'clock yesterday afternoon, the cyclist was considerably shaken, necessitating his removal to the Hospital-

MOTOR MESSENGER INJURED. A motor messenger named H. Watters, of Tilford Street, Woolston, was admitted to the Christchurch Hospital at about 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon, suffering from injuries to his foot and abrasions' on his face and hands sustained in a collision with a motor-car, the accident occurring at the .intersection of Tuam Street and Colombo Street.

A WOMAN'S DEATH. [Per Press Association.] DUNEDIN, October 2.

A married woman named Margaret Sullivan, forty years of age, employed as a cook at the Captain Cook Hotel, was admitted to the hospital at 6.30 to-night, and died at 10.15. It is understood that death was caused by taking poison.