ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 898, 18 August 1910, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

' Alexander allen's death. coeonerYTnquest. Yesterday there was reopened More the City Coroner . (Mr. W. E. Haselden, S.MO. the adjourned inquest touching, the death of Alexander Allen, of New Plymouth,' an old pensioner, who iras found dead.last week in bed at a boardinghouso in Larabton Quay. Death had resulted from a ruptured cyst on the brain, and, as a man was waiting trial at New Plymouth on a charge of assaulting Allen, the coroner adjourned the inquest in order that further evidence might be obtained in this connection. Sergeant Darby was 'present yesterday for the police, but called no further evidence. ; A memorandum was put in from Dr. W. Kington Fyffei who made- the post-mortem' examination. Dr. Fyffe expressed tho belief that the cyst was tho result'of a very severe injury. It was very unlikely that a blow from a poker wielded by a feeble old man would produce the cyst. Everything pointed to an older injury than tho one received a few weeks ago. In his opinion the. cyst was' the result of the fall, % not of the blow from tho poker. A verdict was returned that death was due to injuries accidentally received by deceased "in falling against a mantelpiece; thereby rupturing an old cyst and causing haemorrhage. .... FOUND IN MANNERS STREET.. . A man named Richard Denham. was found in n state of .collapse in Manners Street yesterday by a . police constable. The constable summoned a doctor, who ordered the man's removal to the hospital, as an old-standing complaint rendered an operation necessary. ..'.. RAILWAY ■•.PORTER INJURED. (By Telegraph.—l'res3 Association.) , Stratford, August 17. Last night a- porta' named N. G. -Woods had a thigh ~ badly crushed, though the bone was not broken, while lighting a rear lamp, on a train, through tho train backing him on to a stopblock.

' SUDDEN AND FATAL. Greymouth, August' 17.' George Grey, employed by Sir. B. J. Smith us a gardener and general farm hand,, while outshunting dogs which had worried shoop, fell over a limestone cliff, and a log,'rolling over, killed him, evidently instantaneously.-; Tho ' body was found early this morning.