ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES,
THROWN FROM A GIG. ' (BY ' TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Chrlstchurch, Juno 3. Robert Hughes, employed at Cashmere, diod in tho hospital thjs .morning. ...Ho met, with an accident oil' Saturday night while driving a gig on the Moorhouso Avenuo tramlino. Tho gig collided with a tramway pole, and ho was thrown out. Ho was takon to tho hospital and attended to, and afterwards romoved to tlie polico station, a cbargo of drunkonnoss being preferred. Next morning ho was taken back to tho hospital, whero ho died of cerebral hemorrhage. At an inquest this afternoon th 6 vordict was that tho deceased died from injuries received by being thrown from his gig while, in a stato of intoxication.
Whilo cycling along Lambton Quay at about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon a youth named Gordon Allan Headofcn was throvm from his machino and rendered unconscious. Ho recovered sufficiently after a quarter of an hour to go to his homo in Crawford Street. ■ .■ A married man named Henry Hillbeckett, of Northland, was picked up unconscious near tho Botanical Gardons last, night,, and takon to'tho Hospital; 'He was ' evidently sufforing from tho effects-of a severe fall.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 21, 4 June 1908, Page 7
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193ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES, Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 21, 4 June 1908, Page 7
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