ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 942, 8 October 1910, Page 13

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

.".',. M)ELiIDE ROAD PATiIHi: : THE, INQUEST. - : -77..'.. -An inquest « held.at the'ftowtowa Police Station yesterday afternoon by Mr. W. G. Eiddell, S.M., concerning the death' of the little boy George William Ivory, who' was run. over .by his father's dray in Adelaide Road on Thursday evening! '. ;. Evidence was' given': to the effect that, when- the little boy came to meet his. father, he was picked up, and; sat in the middle of the dray, his" father 'sitting on the left hand side of the front of; the .dray. There .was no board on the. front or back; of the vehicle,-and the road was rough. The dray gave a jolt, and, before the father could- reach. ■Bis-" son, the little .f fell forward,' and was throwniunder the.right wheel. Dr. Cameron'was. summoned at once, and found - the : boy dead. "■■ There were injuries. to ike skull,.chest; arid'shoulder that would have caused death in a few minutes.. ■:Death. was.'duo to: shock arising from' ; the' injuries mentioned.... A verdict was returned in accordance with, the medical testimony. 1 : •.,.;; 7: ■; OLD IDENTITY INJimED. ': ' ' .. (By Telegrapli.f-Press - Association.) ■:••'■ ; ; New: Plymouth, dctober -7. : :■■' •William Humphries, a well-known old settler, was knocked down in the centre of. the town •.-this' morning by a .coal cart, : > the wheel ■■of • which passed over his body. :'He had two or three ribs hrokehj .and iniuries, ■,tne iu extent of', which .are;not yet ldidwn,i but these are believed to 'be serious. ■~