RUN OVER BY A GUN-CARRIAGE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1296, 27 November 1911, Page 4

RUN OVER BY A GUN-CARRIAGE.

S.\l) AlT'Alli AT I'ETONE. A Mil accident, occurred on the Unit Ko.td. near I'ctojie, mi Saturday iil'lornoiiii, ivsiilliiiK in Hi,. death i,|' Vernon ltiehardurn, sini ill' ('ii|ilniii (i. S. Jiieliardson, of llli' New Zealand SUII' Corps. I)i'C..;im. ( | ,v:.s ouo nf a detachment from Hid I). Jfatfcry, under Lieut. M'Quarco, paradim; at I'cloni', praclisng for the alarm tiirn-iiul, anil the driving competition :il the falmorslon North Tournament ii:v\l. month. WJifii tin; detachment was near tin! <.ira:id National Hotel, tho dcro.ised, who was ruling on I hi; gun carriage, got uiKior (ho wheel by noun- means mid received fatal injuries. It is believed Hint in Hie lirst place his cap blew (id', (hat he ran after it, picked it lip, (Ukl thai, in attempting to mount to his seat again, he lost his balanco n.nil fell. Up I ill yesterday evening, however, Ihe police had not discovered anyone who saw the whole of the oecurrence.

Mrs. .lonciren, wife of (bo proprietor of Ihe (iraml National Hotel, saw the de-ow.-cd j as he fell under the wheel, nml she ealli'd Jir-r husband. Tlio latter had the uufortiriab young man carried into Iho hotel, while Or. Ha.il was summoned. The. doctor found that deceased was suffering with a fractured pelvis and serious internal injuries, and at. once, ordered his removal to tho hospital. At the latter institution tho patient was attended by' Drs. Herbert and Wood.house, out from the outset his condition was hopeless, and ho passed away at C o'clock yesterday morning.

])eceas3d, who was 1!) years of ogc, and very popular v-;ith all who knew him.iefiiled with his Grandmother, Mrs. 'Warren, at. 7 llidwell Street, and was employed at Messrs. Kemiilhorne, Pressor's worehousc. H.e was to havo left tor Engkud next month to join lu's parents, who are p;v-?engcrs liy the,lonic, now en route to lxindon. Captain Richardson, accompanied by his wife, left here on November I lo undergo a two years' course of instruction. Deep sympathy is felt for (hem, as this is the third family bereavement within four years. An iii(|iie.?t will bo held at the hospital at - o'clock this afternoon.