ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 444, 1 March 1909, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

RETURNING FHO.tf A PICNIC. A FROLIC ENDS FATALLY. (BY TELEGRAPH—.°r.ESS ASSOCIATION.) Christchurch, February 28. James Moran, 23 years of ago, a single man, and a painter by trade, died at the hospital this morning as the result of injuries received by falling off tho Little River train on Saturday evening. Dcceascd had attended the Kaiapoi Woollen Company's picnic, and, during tho return journey, was skylarking in the carriage and annoying girls by blackening their faces. The guard put him out of the carriage and locked both doors. Deceased then clambered on to tho roof, ofgthe carriage and walked along to the other end of it, and then back again, and when attempting to sit down his foot slipped and ho was thrown violently to tho ground, but clear of tho train. Ho arrived at tho hospital in a semi-conscious condition, his head showing two largo scalp wounds and a dopressed fracture of the skull. It was also found that tho lungs had been injured. DROWNED WHILE BATHING. (by TELEGaArn—rnF.ss association.) Auckland, February 28. Jamos Butler, a single man, aged 23, was drowned at Devonport shortly before cne o'clock yesterday. Butler, who was employed by tho Dovonport Borough Council, arrived homo shortly after midday, and went out immediately for a bathe on tho beach. At about live minutes to ono o'clock, two men, Messrs. Clifford Carryer, and H. E. Cooper, who were bathing near by,' saw deceased coming ashore, calling out as he did so. They swam out towards him, but he sank before they could reach him, and some ten minutes elapsed beforo tho body was recovered. Dr. Aitkinson endeavoured to induce artificial respiration for about forty minutes, but. without bucocss. Deceased was a bob of thfi manager of the Central mine at Broken Hill,