ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 758, 5 March 1910, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

$ — ■ FATAL . TEAM ACCIDENT. IN COURTENAY PLACE. ■ An elderly, mail named John Judge was tli® victim of a fatal tram accident yesterday afternoon ifi Courtenay Place. •About 1.5 p.m. lie was. crossing the street about half way ' between the Courtenay Place trahiway waiting-shed and Tory Street. The unfortunate man evidently Y as , unaware of the approaching car—a double decker—and the shouts of the motorman warning him of his danger evidently did not produce the desired effect, and the car struck him on the right hip, his body, going underneath the tram. The motorman pulled the. car up within nine feet, and the unfortunate 1 .man was extricated.

. Dr. Elliott was summoned, and ordered his removal to the hospital. An examination at the institution showed that lie had sustained very serious injuries, including a''bad dislocation' of the hip, broken ribs, injury to the shoulder, and other internal injuries, besides suffering: severely from shock. The .injured man never regained consciousness, and died at 7.5 p.m. last night. . Deceased resided at Elliott's Boardinghouse in Courtenay Place, and was supposed to be a single man. From papers found in liis belongings it is surmised that he came from the Nelson district, having, come to Wellington about five months ago. _ An inquest on the body will be held at the hospital at 9.30 thia 'morning. • FATAL THEOW. FROM A HOBSE. THE INQUEST. ; An inquest was held at lower Hutt yesterday, before Mr. W. E.. Haselden, S:M., coroner, touching the circumstances surrounding the death of Richard Bay, who was killed by being thrown from a horse. From the evidence it appeared'that deceased went out riding with Herbert Hancock, hairdresser's assistant. The horse on wiiich he was mounted became restive and swerved at a log, and deceased, who was an inexperienced rider, fell off, with the result that his neck was broken.. James MHain, in the employ of Mr. H. E. Leighton, of Lower Hutt, insurance agent, deposed that Mr. Albert Samuel, employer of the deceased, had proposed for an accident policy on deceased, but whether the policy was ever issued he was unable to say. Albert Samuel stated in evidence that he had proposed and obtained cover, but he could not say whether the matter had ever been completed. 'Witness' also stated in his evidence that he had cautioned deceased not to mount the animal, knowing it to be . nervous, but unknown to him (witness) the horse was ridden. A verdict of accidental death was returned. It is not known whether deceased has any relatives in the Dominion.