ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 967, 7 November 1910, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

CONSTABLE M'CORMACK'S^DEATH. .. A FALL IN, THE STREET. (By. Telegraph.—Press Association.) Palmerstan, November 6. M'Cormack,:'stationed at Palroerston North,, died at the' hospital on Saturday as the result of a fractured skull, incurred in. falling backwards • off the footpath in Main Street on Thursday.'" Constable M'Cormack has been thirty years, in.tho force, having served' therein during the Maori disturbances. He was a well-known figure- on the Palmerston railway station, where he was daily on duty. Deceased was a married man. ' SEVERE FALL FROM A HORSE, Palmeraton, November 6. John Colgrovo Hayes, aged ' thirtyfour years, a labourer of Shannon and a married man with a family, was badly injured through a fall from a horso on Saturday, and lies in a precarious condition at a private hospital. He is suffering from a fracture of the base of the skull. This is the third case of similar injury atjPalmerston in three days. ■ STABLE HAND SERIOUSLY HURT. Napier, November 6. A man named Henry Radford 'was severely injured in M'Cormick's stables on Saturday afternoon. He was engaged in harnessing a young horse, which was just being broken in, when the animal lashed out with both hind heels, and caught Radford in the stomach. Ho was removed to the hospital, where he now lies in a condition 60 critical that he is not expected to live.

JOCKEY'HTJRT AT CHRISTCHURCH. Chrlstchurch, November 6. The jockey -Murtagh, rider of Xavier in the first race- yesterday, who sustained concussion of the brain consequent upon the horse-falling, was removed to the hospital, where he still remains unconscious, but is not considered to be in a dangerous condition.

On Saturday, .the Inspector of Polico received, a telegram from Havelock stating that Robert: Forrest, aged 68, had died suddenly at Flat Creek. The message stated that no inquest was necessary. ' ' - .