ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 932, 27 September 1910, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

BATHER'S DEATH AT KARAKA BAYr - THE INQUEST. The Coroner (Mr. W. E. Haselden) held an inquest at the morgue,yesterday after"v - noon touching'tho death of 'Albert Edward Williams, which occurred as:the re- ; 5..;". suit of a bathing acoident at Karaka, Bay; /. • on Sunday afternoon. .: ~, yv .7- 'V -: Dr. Fred Thomas Bowerbank, 17 Eevans" Street, said that ho was called to Karaka. 1 Bay at 2.15 p.m. on Sunday, and arrived ' >*,-• at the Bay at .'2.30 p.m. Deceased was lying on his faco in a boatshed on tho. beach, : and somii men were .'applying arlificial- respiration. Ho (witness) continued " •the respiration,' and injected strychnine, ; as the pulse was practically imperceptibla ''... and the faoo very blue. ■ Every effort ■> * . was mado ;.to restore ,liinv ; and 'the sures taken sucoeetlyi so far. - that tho v ' r ; ; . pulse became "slightly, perceptible.... The ': patient was then lifted on-to a door, and— : " carried to. his parents' house,-: about 20 ; i - v.;. yards away. , Every .means of-rcsuscita- . ,:-.w. tion was, continued-for- an hour and- -a • • : - half, but .the heart failed,. and Williams : . \ died about i p.m. .' Constablo Price: Deceased' is supposed .' ;, " ;: to have overturned the boat; Eto you 1 think it strack liim? : Dr. Bowerbank: I think-it quits pos- 1 --- -— ■' sible. There was no, mark on tho head, • .-. but; a knock might have dazed him for : . a minute or two. vv:.-;; > V;;:: Continuing, Dr. Bowerbank said that ai>- > tificial respiration was continued even : - : for some time after it appeared hopeles4v|.";yr;' : i The cause of death was drowning, tho; .■; -primary cause being over immersion^and' shock. ' .Norman Leslie. Stevens,^publislicr'6: . : as^' : * sistant, residing at Kilbirme, stated that "■■■ v.- ; -!, about five minutes to' 2 o'clock on afternoon, deceased,;witness,- and Charles : . . Duck left, the boatsbed at, Karaka Bay-1 ' and . pushed off; in :a ; dinghy for. a swiin. •. . '.' iThey went out: about ti^ty.'.yard&-V'Wife'-i i ; ness dived in first, deceased next, and ' Charles Duck last. As, witness from his dive, he saw deceased holding on to the side -of tho boat. 1 Witness" ,:, v said, "Don't get m there or you'll cajv size: tbe boat.- -Get round :the stern.*-. -:,,;:;: Deceased 'evidentiy did not" hear, :and c'apS"v : J,."; ?, sized the:boat,- and, a f«w• seconds•latei^ > witness: saw him for ih'o, shore.;?,'MsP Witness.had no -idea that anything was: wrong, arid oommenced to push the boat v.':'/; . shorowards, but suddenly "someone i called*." - v: out, "Look out for Albert!" , Hotfring 1r; the crv, witness-left the boat, 1 and. swam. • towards Albert Williams, him - - j ust is he sank, and:graspihg,him" by. : thsy.-f .baekrof his;swim"miug costume. ; V:Witnes3 v!r v ;:Kt pillled\him up, and: started to swim for ".- :■ the shore, but after going a few yards be- ; camo entangled in ;6»aweed, ■ and could • only stay there and hold deceased;up till ■assistance arrived.. Deceased was - then,,s'.-r----unconscious. .He was just going off whea -,- 1 J ■ !;witness got 'to him. Thriee.'. vouhg.\fel^3j;-J ; lows oame..from a .wharo,.-and got ;. ( 30-;v ■ ceased out. Witness was then exhausfed, - and--it took .him some time to recover. v Deceased had tho reputation of being: agood swimmer'when at college.'- • . ' John Harold Hostyn Williams, i said'that deceased was twenty years age. . He wa! a fair.swimmer and boat. | man.', Witness had-, no-reason, to sup> ' • : . his;:broth i weak, heart. He' was: physically strong;:; i\and had had.no illness. •He was sob® -:- - and steady. ' i Constable Price, -of Kilbinue, also gave .- -; ; evidence as to visiting Karaka Bay, after • the accident. A verdict of - accidental death was ro- . turned.:;; 3; BODY FOUND AT LYALL BAY. 1 .•Yesterday morning Mr. Thomas Ay ton, of Karori, discovered tho body of an eldeiv ly woman on the rocks at;Lyall Bay. ; It had evidently been in the water for. '. some: days..., The ■ matter was reported jto_ t. | the: police, and,. early in . the, afternoon' jJ :.. I the: body -was removed to the morgue.. ' 1 . Subsequently; it-was identified'as, that: - ■ I of-Mrs.,: Elizabeth ,'Connolly ,Martin; a,; ' widow, who used to rent a room at No. 9 | Crosby Terrace. . }3eceafied, who had been : ', reported. to the police as; missing on f t Thursday, last,: is believed to have beett ' •>> I rather depressed m mind lately. An n-. - I quest will be held to-day. 1 GRUESOME DISCOVERY. 1 (By Telegraph.—Press Association.); :; - Auckland, September 26. 4 ; A . gruesome- discovery - was-'made- yea. • terday . afternoon -' -Badgitoto'' -rby.-tMii"-;. Coleman, a traveller. Mr. Coleman was • i. t- : walking along the beach, and,-at a point'.' >. .: •between the boacon and tho wharf, ha v l "' -came, upon-the .body apparently -middle-aged ; man; lying, iigh -and- dry. : ;A • '. ;• little .'way .'further;.-on:he';discovered overcoat, which had. apparently belonged -'.'A." • to the .deceased. • The body' has been.. idenhfaed, by means of.a pyjama'coat on y - , • it, -as . that •of .Henry Pender Smith, an V old man who disappeared from Ponsonby -; some ; months: ago. He was. an, inmate of a private hospital in Auckland, but ho went away from the institution early ~ -one; : morning, : leaving • behind : a, notethe effect that he intended to commit ' suicide, and that he proposed. to drown ; • 'iimMlfr.';;.;;^!?.'.::. SON OF ME GLOVER, M.P., INJURED. Auckland, September 25. ; :, - " . A young man, named Glover, son of Mr. ~. A.; E. Glover, M.Pi,-Buffered rather serious injuries by falling down,the stairway ; . of oho of the. ferry steamers. He was - . going over, from; Anokland : to Devonpor.t,.;. . ; and, when nearing. the Devonport Wharf, >;• was going .'from the upper' to the. :., lower deck,- ana: foil down several' steps, inju> . ing himself internally.' His condition w:. serious. ' . -i - V--.--. v,'?';.;- ■ 1 "JUST PIVE MINUTES BEFORE." Dunedin,. September 26. *. ■E. Watson, a member ,of the-:: Otago' ; ■ touring team 'this year,, while .playing - ..v,-. for volunteers on Saturday, - broKo-.lus leg near tho ankle. .J}ho acoident occur-:--. . - red about five minutoS before tho oloso ,■ of the football-season ln-Dunedin. DRONED IN THE 'INANGAHUA. ( Reefton September 26. ip-'A man named Wm. Love, -while under, , . the influence of liquor, fell into the Ina- ' ~. ngahua Itivor en Saturday night., He waa^;. feecn to fall, and was,caught lower down,. vbut, though alive, ho collapsed later. . BICYCLE SMASH. Last evening a man named — Simpson ■ was: admitted to.' the hospital suffering 'M £ from concussion of tho brain. It appears that the injured man, who .resides at No. 116 Mein Street,.-- Newtown, ,was coming -; l; down that street on a bicycle,, when he , was thrown off the machino.- Ho wad pioked up unconscious, and was temovea , , to tho hospital. ■_ - • -ON THE HIGHLAND MONARCH; -; Whilst working on the steamer Highland Monarch last night, a married man named Charles Bourko, residing, in Walter -: fell down a hold and sustained . ; a fracture of tho' skulL' - -