HOLIDAY ACCIDENTS

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20334, 26 October 1937, Page 8

HOLIDAY ACCIDENTS

TWO FATAL FALLS MOUNTAINEER KILLED (Special to Times.) GREYMOLTH. Monday Mr Stanley Nicholls (27) with i companion while on a mountalneerln expedition stood on a ledge whirl gave way and lie was precipitated 50i feet, where he struck another ledc« and rebounding therefrom fell anothe SUO feet Into tlie Otira River. His com panion with considerable difficult; descended and found him dead. NEW PLYMOUTH, Monday Mr Frank Martinelli (29) of Wellington, while pig hunting near Matnv t slipped on sodden ground and fel I over a bank 50 feet high. When hit companion picked him up he was dead having apparently been killed in stantaneously. His skull was frac tured. TARANAKI TRAGEDY LONG SLIDE DESCRIBED (BV Trloifrapn — Press Association! NEW PLYMOUTH, Tuesday. A verdict of accidental death wa* returned at the .nquest in Stratford today into the death of Frank M irtufelL single, who fell 50 feet to hit death near Matau. Fast Taranaki, oc Sunday while pig hunting. Alfred Inder described how Mi*tm elli followed the dogs into the hash tc see what they were barking it. indei heard a crash and subsequently* Martinelli’s body »vas found in a gully Martinelli, from indications, must h|\« slid 100 feet before falling 10 feet niU the ravine. Help was secured but took three hours to get the body out o. | the bush.