MYSTERIOUS ACCIDENT

Waikato Argus, Volume XXXV, Issue 5507, 13 January 1914, Page 2

MYSTERIOUS ACCIDENT

DOCTOR FOUND IN STREET. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Saturday. Dr P. W. King, a well-known Auckland practitioner, was the victim of a mysterious and very severe accident last evening. About 8 o'clock the motorman of a tram-car descending Wellesley street noticed the body of a man lying near the other set of rails, and - stopped his car to investigate. Major Plugge and a member of the New Zealand Medical Corps, who were the first to render assistance, found that the man was Dr King, who was insensible and bleeding profusely from the right ear. There were no marks of violence on the head. The police having been summoned, Dr King was taken on a stretcher to h ; s home, in Symonds street, where Dr W. H. Parkes pronounced his case to be one of severe fracture of the base of the skull, and ordered him to be removed to the Mount Pleasant Hospital. This afternoon Dr King was still in an unconscious condition, and his case was considered very critical. How the accident occurred is not known, but it has been suggested that Dr King may have fallen from a tram-car. No one, however, appears to have seen any such occurence.