ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1391, 18 March 1912, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

> _ TRAMWAY FATALITY: THE INQUEST. Tho inquest concerning the death of dargaret Florence O'Connor was eoninued by Dr. 31' Arthur, S.H., on Saturlay. ilrs. O'Connor liad died in the hospital as tho result of ti tramcar accident, ilotorm.m J. K. Clark, who was driving :ho car which struck the deceased, said hat. the night of the accident was a dark me. When four or fiYO yards off tho de:eased he saw her standing near one of iho centre poles. It was too lato tdt him :u avoid the collision. There was no light it the Dunny-Featherston Street crossing. Evidence was given to the effect that -lark did all ho could in the circuiuitances, llr. J. O'Shoa, City Solicitor, stated rliat tho reason tlio crossing was in darknets was that Ihoro had been a "fault." The "fault" was being rectified at the time. Tho verdict was (in accord with medical testimony) that death had been due to fracture of tho base of tao skull. It was ndded tint tho motorriaii and tho conductor were free from blame. DEAD MAN'S IDENTITY ESTABLISHED. Tho man who recently died of injuries resulting from a tram accident has been Joiinitely identified as Henry Galvan by his brother, David Galvnn, of Unglan, from a photograph sent up by the police. Mr. I. J3ishon was with the deceased a few hours before tho accident, and notified the rolico, who found that there was a parcel of deceased's containing a few old clothes and one. or two bills made iip to January 29, at the Pier Hotel. Deceased had been workjng ut v St. Helen's, near' "Wes'port. ;'V THE WRONG GARGLE. "Yesterday afternoon, at the morgue, an inquest was held before Dr. M'AVthur regurdini; tho death of Edmond James Fishenden, who died nt GO Kent Tcrraco on .Friday evening under unusual circumstances. It appears that the deccashome a mixture to gargle his throat, having a cold. In the evening ho appears to have taken the mixture in mistake for somq whisky which was near l>y. Medical evidence by Dr. Fyrt'o went to, show that deceased had either died of suffocation in the larynx or by poisoning of tho stomach, by taking ouseptol inwardly. Dr. Fyffe could not say for certain whether death had been caused by fijffpcation, or if tho mixture had reached the stomach, the former was most probable. Tho coroner found accordingly. Deceased was of sober habits and a hardworking man. A FIREMAN'S DEATH. ■ An inquest was held at tho Hospital yesterday on the circumstances surrounding tho death of Alfred Franklin l.oigh, a fireman employed by the City Council, nnd who died from the ofl'cct of a severe cut "on the arm. Evidence was Riven to the clVoct that deconsed was a married man living apart from his wife, in lodgings in TnVnnaki Street. Questioned, his wife- said that she was in the habit oi visiting deceased from time- to time and (hat on Friday last she had found hire in bed bleeding severely from a cut on the arm." She raised the alarm and Df Henry arrived and ordered his rcmovai to the Hospital. She said that thcro bar teen no trouble and that deceased np p'earaWo have b-sen bleeding for somt Hrne~bpfore"shearrived. She was of opin ion that the cut had been inflicted some timn before. Deceased was semi-conscioui when ho arrived ut the Hospital and died soon afterwards. !\ post-mortem examination held by tin Hospital authorities revealed the'fuel Hint tin , .deceased had died of syncope tan-oil by haemorrhage from ono of tli( veins in the. arm being cut. The Cor nnir (Dr. M'Arlhur) recorded n fimliiif in .-iPTordnnrp with the mcdiral evidence ns there, wm? nothing In show Hint ile r.f.v-ofl Imt! committed suicide. The wiff nn being fiucctinnnrl swop> thnt there h.i( Iwn no recent rupture between her am deceased,