ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 20056, 20 September 1920, Page 8

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

FOOTBALLERS INJURED. The Rugby representative match on Saturday between Wellington and Canterbury was marked by an extraordinary series of accidents in’ the second spell. Six men were forced to retire through injuries— If, M’Lcod and E. Fitzgerald, of the Canterbury team, and W. O'Sullivan, H. E. Nicholls. W. Malin and J. M’Cabe, of the Wellington team. M’Cabe was the only one to suffer serious injury. He broke p small bone in his ankle, and was not able to return to Wellington on Saturday night. The accidents were due to the hard state of the ground. There was no suspicion at any time of rough play. " SHOOTING ACCIDENT. A young man named Stanley, a returned soldier, was shot through the right foot while rabbit-shooting on Saturday. He was admitted to the Christchurch Hospital. DETONATOR EXPLOSION. PALMERSTON N., September 19. Harry Hewitt, fifteen years of age, employed at a basket factory; had his left thumb and forefinger blown off by the explosion of a detonator. MOTOR-CAR FATALITY. NELSON, September 19. A motor-car, containing Charles Herbert Butters, traveller for an Auckland •firm, and his wife and child, fell over an embankment at Washington Road yesterday afternoon. Mrs Butters was killed. _ The others escaped unhurt. There is -a steep bit of road at the scene of the accident, and Butters was backing downhill to change gears and the brakes refused to act.' Deceased was aged twenty-six. She had been two years from England. HEATH FROM APOPLEXY. [Per Press Association.] DUNEDIN, September 20. An inquest was held on the body of Sue i'in, an aged Chinaman, who was found ciead in his hut at Blackball near Kanturly. After medical evi'dence, tno Coroner returned, a verdict that the cause ot death was apoplexy caused oy the rupture of a diseased blood vessel m the brain. The doctor said that, in his opinion the mark on !n,n i ad . "; nS Causcd b .V deceased tailing and striking some hard substance, after hemorrhage -of the brain had commenced. YOUNG WOMAN’S DEATH. [Per Pkess Association.] m, . AUCKLAND, September 20. T >| 6 r ‘ ,ody of «. J'oung woman, Mrs uth Crou-c lf wife of J. M. tfrowe, packer, was found hanging in an outhouse of a residence in Grey Lynn voxtorday. The bod, ™ | I™;; Mi the deceased and her husband had been suffering from influenza, the former for about a fortmdit, Mrs Crowe appeared to be recovering yesterclav, and was able to get out of bed. She was at the bedside ot her husband, who is in a critical state until noon. She went outside a ittle later, and shortly afterwards her body was discovered by her sistor-in-lay. Mr Crowe was yesterday conveyed to the hospital in a serious condition.