CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16142, 21 February 1918, Page 9

CASUALTIES.

e , FATAL CYCLE COLLISION. The adjourned enquiry into the death of Richard fletcher, of 62 Hawkesbury avenue, who died in the Christchurch Hospital on Tuesday as the result of a cycle collision, was held at the Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr T. A. B. Bailey, Coroner. The only further, evidence adduced was that the day the accident occurred was dusty and windy. The Coroner said that tho case would be left open for the police to bring further evidenco should they procure it. In the meantime ho would return a verdict: "That the said Richard Fletcher died on the 18th day of February, 1916, at the Christchurch Hospital, and that the cause of death was haemorrhage and oedena of the brain, resulting from injuries received from a fall. The fall was occasioned by i his being knocked down by a bicycle ' ridden by one William Roy Haase, in . Moorhouse avenue, on February 12th, > while the deceased was crossing the ■ road." > INQUESTS. Inquests were held last evening by ' Mr H. W. Bishop, Coroner, touching > the deaths of Arthur -Waldon Allan 7 and William James Trerise, who both 1 died suddenly at Woolston the previous evening. In each case a verdict of death from heart failure was returned. > •• - ■ -(phess association -texegkim.) " HAWERA, February 20. " Another motor accident occurred last evening on tho Manaia road, when a i young man named Bunn, of Kapuni, • who was riding a. motor-cycle, collided , with a motor car. The. bicycle was - smashed to pieces and the motor car ; badly damaged. Bunn suffered badly, > sustaining a fractured leg, and was removed to the Hawera Hospital. who was severely injured > in thei motor smash on Sunday, died to-day. i