CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18233, 18 November 1924, Page 11

CASUALTIES.

. —» ... CRUSHED BY ELEVATOR. A' man named A. Johnstone, a' lift attfnlant in Hereford Court, met-with au accident yesterday afternoon, tuffeiing a broken right leg. The lift ii an automatic one, and it started unexpectedly as Johnstone was stepping ih. It appears that Johnstone lost his ,balance, and when the lift was approaching the next floor he fell through the netting and dropped about eight feet to the floor. The injured man was attended by Dr. Stanley Foster, who sent hiin to the Hospital. ,He iB a married man, aged 69, residing at No. 372 Worcester street, Linwood, and had occupied the position of elevator attendant, at Hereford Court for about a month. Ho had previously been a lift attendant in the Dominion buildings. MESSAGE BOY KILLED. Hector Gordon McDonald, a youth 16 years of age, employed as a message. boy by Smith and. Anthony, printers and publishers, Manchester street, Christchurch, died in the Christchurch; Hospital yesterday afternoon as a result of injuries received through being run over by a horse-drawn lorry. At about 12 o 'clock the boy waß sent with a parcel to Redfern's, printers, also in Manchester • street, ami just as he reached the intersection of Tuam and Manchester streets he collided with the lorry, and was knocked down and run over by one of the wheels of tho vehicle. He was immediately taken I to tho hospital, but died a few minutes after admission. The apparent cause of death was fracture of the base of the skull and internal hemorrhage. An inquest was opened at the hospital last evening, and after hearing evidence of identification the Coroner, Mr H. Y. Widdowson, adjourned the inquest sine die. The twelve-year-old sen of Mr, K. J. Jay, of Christchurch, had a-n j eye injured on Saturday. A toy spring gun had been loaded with' a nail by a younger brother, and when it was fired it struck the other lad in the. eye. He is now progressing satisfactorily, the sight not having been destroyed. A man named Arthur Heney, aged 29"• of 24 Beckenham s'reet, was injured in the abdomen while workup in the railway goods shed yesterday. He was struck by a' fatting packingcase and was removed to the Hospital for treatment.

(PB£S9 ASSOOATIOB TKLX63U3U.) GISBOENE, November 17. Ethel Marjorie Peach, an infant of 15 months, was fatally scalded at Whatatutu by the upsetting of a teacup of boiling water. AUCKLAND, November IT. Albert Edward Inglis, married, aged> i 5, waa found dead in a flat at Devonport with his face over a gas-ring. ■ He had been suffering from insomnia, the effect of war injuries. The Coroner returned a verdict of suicide. INVE&CABGILL, November 17. John Brass, 15, was drowned in the estuary yesterday. While bathing with' two others, he got beyond his depth. His body was recovered by

another youth, who narrowly escaped drowning, being rescued, after a struggle, by Stanley Porter. Neither I could 'swim. OAMARU, November 17. A man named Collins, of . Kuro.w, was out shooting on Saturday, when he had his arm shattered by a shot from a gun he was .carrying being accidentally ' discharged. He wa3 removed to the Oamaru Hospital, and his arm was amputated. He is progressing satisfactorily. ' ' . GORE, November 17. • Edwin Spoden (20), single, employed at the Bukerau Dairy Factory, was thrown from a motor-cyclo, through, his coat becoming entangled in a wheel. He now lies in the Gore Hospital, in an, .unconscious state,, suffering from. a fractured. skull. . I