ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 639, 16 October 1909, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

IN A CITJT WAREHOUSE. AN 1 ELEVATOR FATALITY. > ' "A '.yoiing- man named Thomas Donovnn, 'eriiployed' by' ; Mr. Geo; Wlndeiy ironmonger,' wy missed from tho warehouse at about 5.30 p.m.v . His. follow.' employees searched for : him, but could not find, him, though, he .had'not taken Jiifl coat-away; Surmising, However, that ho had, left, before'the' liSUat ititfiei they /abandbned the. search; but hs ho did not iippoar, next morning"'they,,'again "looked . 'for him. A* a, result of'this sccond' sparoh, deceased's body was found on the fourth story. It Is Supposed, thht' deceased' wished- to go downstairs by tho goods lift, and, climbing on to ,the. recess, pulled the string which sets the lift in motion. , In doing this ho must have leaned over the.well, .perhaps to geo .if tho lift were 'coniiog..up, and tho weights balancing-the lift came down and pinned nim against tho cross'bar. .- .- ... ■. ' Yesterday Dr. A.' M'Artl\ur, coroner, held an inquest regarding tho, causo of .death. ' Peter ■ Campbell, 6toreman ill 1 tho em-ploy of 1 Geo. Winder, said that ho was on duty at 5.30 p.m;, taking, wire from tho basement and the .ground floor, ' Ho had not'been using- the . lift previously in .tho. afternoon, but . his assistant had. .About 5.20 ho. left the lift at. the'ground floor,-and wont away for a few minutes. When lie returned ho noticed that tho lift was. about 8 or .10 feet higher up between the ground and first floors. Witness, called out to seo if thiro wag anyone on the lift, and receiving no reply ho attempted to bring- it down, tyit-it would hot move.' He went' to the cellar, to: inspect the gear, and finding 110 defect- went away. Next morning he: and. his assistant ngain ill-' spectcd the lift, to seo why it was not working, and witness, looking up from tho ground floor," saw something in the recess between tho wall and the lift. Ills assistant said : that ho thought that: it was the body of. deceased, and witness informed Mr;. Wills, who mado an inspection. Five minutes; later witness/ in;company with "a constable, went up to the fourth floor, where they found the body. William Donovan,-brother of deceased, also' gave evidenco. • -. 1 THn inquiry was adjourned until 10.30 this morning.,*'; '•'■'■!"■' ' THE FATALITY AT NAPIER RACES, j, .. . (By Telegraph—Press Association.) v' :i r ' Napier, October 15. - At- the inquest, concerning the death of the jockey John O'Connell, the evidence ot jockeys and eye-witnesses of tho accident-wont to show thatdeceased got tangled up with Forest's legs when ho came down at tho hurdle. There was no -suggestion of. interference. A verdict of death from fracture of; tho skull,-with 1 no blame attachable t6 anyone, was returned. - .; KNOCKED DOWN BY A TRAM. ; / ■ -,■■/ Auckland, October 15. ■An elderly woman, Mrs. Emma Harisnta, a recent arrival' from .'Fiji,-.was -knocked down by a-tram in' Queon Street ' to-night, and Beverely Injured, but It is espeoted that she will recover. SUDDEN DEATH. ; • . . Dunedln, October 15. Thomas-Hogg, employed on tho dredge Vulcan. at the Dunedin Wharf, died suddenly this morning, -presumably -from heart disease. '