ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 490, 24 April 1909, Page 13

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

THE FATALITY AT THE'"WHAWf." DECEASED IDENTIFIED. ' Tho wharf labourer who fell into the harbour on Thursday evening end died at the hospital tho same night was identified yesterday morning as John Hislop, who hod boon living at a boarding-house in Johnston Street. An inquiry was held at the hospital yesterday by Dr. A. M'Arthur, S.M., coroner, as'to tho cause of death. Evidcnco was given by Sydney Annis, a fireman on the tug Duco, who said he saw deceased staggering along tho wharf near tho Duco just beforo the accident happened. Witness deposed that Uislop was so much under tho influence of liquor that he was hardly able to stand. He fell half over the wharf with his shoulders against tho Duco, but recovered himself, and sat down on tho 'stringer for a few moments. Deceased then walked towards tho bow of tho steamer, and witness lost sight of him, but later : heard a tplash, and, on investigating, saw doccased face- downwards in tho water. Witness got a boat hook, and held tho man up until Constable Curamings arrived. ■ ■'. '-. Tho constable stated that he' was called to tho sccno of tho accident at 6.40 p.m;, add, on 'finding out that tho man was in the water, allowed himself to bo lowered down by moans of a rope until he was able 1 to roscuo nislop, who was pulled up" on to the wharf in an unconscious condition. .Hβ revived undor treatment, and Was taken to tho police station for medi6al attention. Dr. Henry deposed that he attended deceased at the station and found him to be suffering from the result of immersion in the water and alcoholism.'.'-'After the wet clothes'had been removed Hislop. was, wrapped in blankets and taken to the hospital, witness then fearing that the man might develop pneumonia within' 24 hours. Dr. Foster, noiiso surgeon at the ■ hospital, who attended to deceased the hospital, said that the oaujo of death was water in tJio lungs intcrferiijg with respiration. Evidence was also given by the keeper of the boardinghouse at which deceased stayed. A Verdict was returned in accordance with tho medical evidence.

PENNILESS CRIPPLE'S SAD DEATH. (BT TELEGRAPH—PBESS ASSOCIATION.) Palmorston North, April 23. Charles Hood, penniless, friendless, and an asthmatic cripple, was sentenced to-day io thiee months' imprisonment in Wanganui Gaol for vagrancy. On being conveyed to the station to catch the express he collapsed on tho platform, and on being driven in a cab to the doctor's died on arrival. Hood was 25 years old, and hailed from 'Wellington^ STRUCK BY A TRAIN. Auckland, April 23. A woman named Mrs. Ahlgren, a resident of Henderson, was found lying , near tho railway line early this morning with a broken arm and injuries to tho head ' and body. Presumably sHo had been struck by a train arid thrown clear of the rails, but she is not able yet to givp an account of the accident. Hor condition is not regarded as serious. DROWNED TN A WELL. Dannoyirke, April 23. Information has been received hero by tho polico that Louis Brown, aged 32, singje, was drowned in a well at Orraondvillo this morning.. The well had just been completed. Deceased went down to clear some debris that .was ; floating on tho surface/ and when being lowered w as. apparently overcome by foul air, and fell into the water. Tho well was 97 feet deep. Tho body was not recovered for sevoral hours. CAPSIZED ON HORA HORA BAR. Auokland, April 23. The crew of tho ttig-boat Stella, which capsized on tho Hora flora Bar, were thrce(jnarters of an hour in tho surf, They had a terrible strugglo to,reach tho shore. The captftih and mato wore almost • gono, but managed to lartd. An ordinary seaman, W. Campoell, was drowned. FOUND DEAD. Ashburton, April 28. A man named, Scanlon, an employe© of Mr. Thomas Laneloy, farmor, Dromore, was found dead in bed in a hut yesterday. , IN A DOCTOR'S WAITING-ROOM. (Dl TELEQRJrn<— Sl'fiCtAl. CDItnKSPQ.N'na.N'Ti) Dunodln, April 23. Mr. Ralph Emmorson, manager- at Invercargill for Messrs. D. Benjamin 'and Co., dropped dead this morning (tho caUso boing heart failure) in Dr. Ewart's waiting-room. The deceased had been consulting Dr. Ewart for some time, but tho last sudden development was quito unexpected, ns ho seemed in tho best of spirits this morning,