ACCIDENTS' AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 746, 19 February 1910, Page 6

ACCIDENTS' AND FATALITIES.

- A PAINFUL EXPERIENCE, i (By Tclocrasb—Press-Association.) . ' . ' . Woodvillc, February-18.; A serious accident;happened to.a young man named Fred. Kemp, , son of E.Kemp,, at Kumeroa, " yestorday,' af&r'noon. ".'-.He was 1 engaged' l in blasting.; logs .-in a pad-' dock,.-and finisheda charge, but before-: the fnsi) was; fixed'. the;, explosion' Occurred. .'■ Kemp '.-was ; standing -on . the log ;at /the itimeT' . was .badly. ' singed 'and; ; liis '/'clothes became '.on : fire: He only had enough. energy ( to' rush'; to a swamp and roll; in'the-water, but before he got tha fire out.he .was.terribly burned, about . the' body:!' At present ho -is • lying in a', neighbour's -.house-'(Bryants) in a Very ' serious - condition..! Kemp' has" no .knowledge how tho chargo went off, but it is. "surmised: that.:ho ..was /smoking at' the time, and a spark dropped on to, tliei powder. '/ , .

death lor -A^bHiiip:";'"' j Mri/.^lbß;*i , H^l<ieri,'' l S.M.,'/lield-! an inquest'/a'i the Alexandra'' Homo, Hahsoh Street, yesterday; morning,' concerning the death 1 of a female " child, . five idays , old.; Dr. Stanley. Brown's "evidence .' went. to' show;.'that, death was. duo to .asphyxia,, probably Caused' by '-the-infant being.' overlain by the mother. The'child was wellnourished, : and there- -were: no' marks of Violence. The mother was a single woman, aged. 17.. The -evidence, of .the . matron and others !Vas also taken, : and the Coroner's ; verdict r - was . that' •<death- was due to asphyxiation, caused by . accidental overlaying.' :V' : '/'

THE STJICEDE AT'NEWTOWN. . • • Ail W. E. Haselden, morning,., con-' cerning the'"death. : of .Percy Parish,- a labourer at Newtown ; train-carsheds, who shot himself with a Winchester rifie. at the .residence of .Mr.'. Arthur Cromie, fortman of the - .sheds, -on ; the previous evening. -**-■*"' '•• • - * ; The evidence bore out 'the. report: published in The DoinxroN- yesterday,;, and it' was further stated that the deceased was : not' addicted. to^'drink.'.and. was of very steady, habits;' /A: sum':of jid.-; was found on the ..body., A Post Office. Savings Bank book l .showed that deceased: had also a small sum to his credit in'the bank. • 'v.: -•• •''' • •' : r •" •' \ The verdict was that death was caused by a'gunshot wound, self-inflicted daring' temporary insanity., . '