ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16292, 6 December 1920, Page 8

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

SUDDEN DEATH. ' News was received on Saturday that Mrs K. J. Jennings, a widow, who had lived with her son-in-law, Air K. AT Kay, 304, Hill’s Road, St Alartins, and who left Lyttelton by the ferry steamer on Friday, night, died suddenly on Saturday morning soon after her arrival in Wellington. A doctor had attended her for heart disease. She was about sixty years of age. CHILDREN INJURED IN COLLISION. _ A collision between a motor-cycle and side-car and a motor-car, at ilangiora ■at 6.30 last evening, resulted in a iTtlc girl of five sustaining a broken thigh and an infant suffering seven injuries to its head. The accident occurred at the intersection of High Street and the East Belt. The car, a fully-loaded liveseater, was coming into town from the direction of Woodend, and the motorcycle, travelling down the belt, struck the car side on, just behind the front wheel. Air A. J. Breach was driving the motor-cycle, his wife and two children being ip the side-car, and a friend, Miss Gladys Nottingham, riding on tho carrier. All were thrown on the road, the side-car being wrecked. The frame ‘of tho motor-cycle was badly damaged. The children suffered the more severe injuries, the others escaping with bruises and a severe shaking. The child with tho broken limb was taken by Dr Will to tho Brocklehurst Hospital.' The car, which belonged to Air A. Prostney, and was being driven by an employee, a young man named Sylvester Devlin, was not badly damaged.

RUN OVER BY TRAM. [Pk» Press Association.] AUCKLAND, December 0. "William M’Alath, a well-known PonBonby cricketer, died in the hospital early this morning from injuries through being run over by a tram at Takapuna last night. Both legs wore severed. He was aged forty and married, with a young family.

DEATH IN A CHURCH. [Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, December 6. William Lambert, aged seventythree, died suddenly in St David’s Presbyteryiau Church on Sunday morning. He unveiled a roll of honour during the service, saying a few words to tho congregation, and walked to his seat, while the hymn, “Now the Labourer’s Task is O’er,” was being sung. On sitting down be fell forward, and was carried into the vestibule, expiring soon after. He bad been under medical treatment for heart trouble.

WOMAN FOUND DEAD. [Per Press Association. I HASTINGS, December 6 A woman, aged about forty, wag round dead in an overgrown vacant section early this morning. On the Vd?' Alf V 1 a ? k bOO V n the ““me of Aoa Alice Coats, and a referent liotl M l ! 6, IVOm S* Grand LloteJ letone. _I ho deceased mas Klcn died as haring been temporarily employed at n, local hotel, under t o name ol Harris. • 110 KILLED BY A TRAIN. [Per Press Association. | nr -1 Dcc ember (1. An accident having a fatal termin Hanh rr nr T 1 on Saturrli) y night at Hankaitiki, mlien a man named Edward Ci thbert O Hare was found dead some ten chains irom the Hangaitiki ra i. way station. It i S assumed that deceased was struck by a passimr goods tram when ho was crossing the , , Deceased sustained a broken back and other injuries. At an innuest A 1,. Burton, S.M.. found that deceased died tiom injuries received through beinoSi^aSte. 110

YOUNG GIRL DROAYNED. [Per Press Association.] m r *yUHARUNUI, December 6. Mary Ihorpe, aged fifteen, otilv daughter of Mr H. Thorpe, 'of The 1 i IWIC ( , or :s Department, was drowncd jesterday while bathing in tlm Ongarue River, near Taumanmui. It was Sifure J Sbr°’ ZUI ! 0 | °{ Cramp or f,eart aai lire. Slio suddenly sank in deen ;!.l Cr ,} V 11 ° s " lmrnin e beside another gul, who uas grabbed and pulled nn der, but got free and scrambled ashore A number ol bathers were present' Aftoi a search of ten minutes the body uas located and recovered. Artificial respiration was tried for an born- and a quarter, without success. Deceased bad previously complained of cramp.