ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16748, 15 March 1926, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

. RAILWAY GANGER KILLED. , "'(By Telegraph—Press Association.) STRATFORD, Saturday. Some' time last railway ganger, John O'Callaghan, was killed at a crossing between .Stratford and Midhirsl. The body was found this morning in a pool of blood alongside the line. The deceased was apparently riding on a jigger, and was struck by the north-bound mail train, which was running late. Heavy rain was falling,— The-dFiv<H>--k-new nothing of the accident. O'Callaghan was a widower, and has brothers in Southland. A son waS last heard, of at Riyerton. , . "*'4i" •£ : A JOCKEY KILLED. ""'" CHRISTCIIURCH, Saturday. P. L. Loyd, a jockey, while riding the hurdler, -Naughty -Peter, received internal injuries through his horse falling on him. Lloyd died in the J1.05pi.taL........ .......,..,v - ... "THE EASIEST WAY OUT." GREYMOUTII, Saturday. At the inquest- on Edward Scott, who was found hanging in a hut at Awanui, a verdict was returned of .suicide: .by...hanging,, The evidence Showed*:thai Scott, in commenting on •the--suicide of-another miner, said, "Jt was the easiest "way-out.''- • . NEW PLYMOUTH, Saturday. A motor fatality occurred at iniil.day on Carringlon. Boa.cl, in which a iiljle girl named Ma.isie -.Lillian Lunn, aged eight years, was killed by;being knocked down by a motor-cycle ridden by George Alfred Adlarn, farm manager, of llurworth. AUCKLAND, Saturday. Mrs Elsie. La Roy,''Who was knocked down. Jiy a t.iXt'.Tn* v :.FL'e"c.!iian's Bay last night, tiioain/.'thq li'o.spiLil this .'afternoon'.' - ; ,',.', : V. " An. elderly:.woman, Elsie Lp Roy, of Hemuera, "was seriously injured through being struck by a taxi-cab while "stepping off the footpath. She received a fracture of the left leg, and n fracture of the jaw, together with scalp wounds. A seaman, Mr Sam 'Wallace, aged 30, was knocked down in Customs Street. He was found lo be suffering from concussion. In a motor accident, Mr Jack McMullen, single, aged 38, received head injuries, which arc not believed; to be serious. :■ • DANNFA'IRKE, Saturday. ' Percy Allen Howe, aged one year arid eight months, died last evening .from scalds through a kettle of boiling water having been accidentally emptied over him as"the mother, was removing the vessel from the stove. DUNEDIN, Monday. .Tolin Griffin Clerk, aged li, was drowned on Saturday in a dam behind the Kailangala mine. A companion'procured assistance when (he lad got into difficulties. The body was soon recovered, but resuscitation .efforts were unavailing. r.imiSTCHURGH, aSiurday. Jessie Wilson, a single, woman, aged about 2'i years, nod her death last evening under-unusual circumstances. She was visiting a rrieiKl, Ernes! Archer, a married man, at his workshop, when she suddenly became ill. Archer administered restoratives, but she died.