ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 750, 24 February 1910, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

\i i V: - ; vvV" \ DEATH BY MISAnVENTOM.' "

A CITY FATALITY. '

An inquest was hold at the hojpit&lyesi .torday afternoon, before Mr. Wi'H. HasoU don, S.M. (coroner),-m connection with tha death of Thomas -Joseph -Eedmond,. 8V years of .age; who was knocked down by a cab in Courtenay Place on the evoning of February 14. Ho was ft singl&man, in the; service of. the. Customs Department. ' Sergeant Mathieson roprcscnW tln police, and Mr.: T, M. Wilfoid appparofl in behalf of the cabman, John Aijdereoa Vatters.'

The medical ovidence that demised had; beett'SuffefiM ■ from ■8liocl^ ; -in term injuries, and. a. doubly fraotnro of the collar-bone.' FoT.':ttie; first few ; days aftgr,• admission to thu hospital, ho. progressed : satisfactorily, hut subsequently' developed' t..\ of the lungs, ana died from'.', ' this cause. and heart failure,' at 5.30 p.m,' . on February 22. '•Th? stated that the aooident'obr-'/y ; ■ cyrred near the corner of '.'Kent i ."-''' ,, : ; and Courtejiay I'laco. Ho had dnvon a; Ekir:of -liOTsea'roiind.from; Kent Terrace,'' and; deceased" camo • across; • Courtenay., Plaoe, with Jjis head turned to\rards the Gas Company's/premises. Witness called out, but decoasod, 1 who to bo quite sober, was caught by the .pole or : polo strap, and.knocked down. As tha offside horsu - w»s 'kicking/ 'Trifcess on : a' few paces, .hoping to saw deceased ...: y from bring lacked,.by allowing hirii pass -under the cab. . One of the baolj ■■■■: wheels passod oyer deceased. There werq' ' two passengers, in the was' ;■ Prime . private, ■ secretary, Mr.; . witness, aftor. driving down to the steamer, . returned to Courtenay Place.

Evidence was given; inter-, alia, By doceased's brotkerj Henry-Redmond (warrant officer m tho defence -forces of Dr.;'Elfcott,- John A.' Watterp ;(cab pro. priotor), Dr. ■ Hardwick Smith (medical superintendent at tho hospital), Jamy Matthow O'Reilly (Customs landing waiter), Colin Ainslie Montgomery (clerk- ip tho Magistrate's. Court), George Roovos (labourer, employed at tho.Gasworte),,Er? nnst Reuben Baker (tramway- motorman), Timothy Herlihy (tramway motorman),. and Alexander Thomas M'William (cab; proprietor). . -v • The coroner's verdict was that Redmond had diod from inflammation of the lungs, supervening on, injuries accidentally nv coived from oontaot vfitii a-cab on Feb-, rnary 14.

1 CITRISTPHTTROH INQUEST: ..u (By Tolcffraph.rrProflß Assoolatloo.l, Christchur?(i, February 23.; Ail mcraesfc was held at tho city morgTjo to-day by Mr. IX. W- Bial\opr district coronor, tonching tho: death of. Thomas Eho4cs Christian, who wps found tho pre-, vions morning: hanging from Abeam ift a workshop in Madras Street. After Rearing;' the 'eVidencei r thr coroner 'refenea | vordict that tho deceased had 1 committed suicide vhilo of unsound mind. :, DEATH Or A WAGONER Duncdin, Tobrnary 29. The; police have advioe tha,t .*.• man' named .John Fitzgerald, a wagon<^ ; has boen lcilled at-Waipon M« to-day.

A young Irishman lived at soma <fia v tanco from his brido-elcct. On t.io eventfill day hie set off for tho in googl K ; time, but .being, delayed ■ by: friends,.'.; ha missed his' train.Then J, nc beihoughi ■, himself of the telegraph.' "Don't marry - till I come.—William' ! was the messagq : ho wired.* "That nephew of yours is a little wild, . TJnclo Jerry, I'll .admit," said his fleigh*, bOTUY trying to comfort him, '"but he'll reform as older, Mm to time' and nature." 'Time and' nature P* ■ snorted Uncle Henry Peebles, "lfs timt and nature that makes Limbnrger cheeso' what it is."