ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1493, 16 July 1912, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

CALLOUS HUSBAND. CITY COKONKR DISGUSTED. An inquiry into the death of Mrs. Ad.i Love, who dkd early on Sunday morning last, was held vcsterdav before Dr. M'Arthur. Dr. r'yffc, who lead conducted a postmortem examination, stated there was a 'rrccnt bruise on the bridge of the no.'e. He was of opinion that death was due to haemorrhage of the brain, consequent on gianula'r kidney. There were strong symptoms of alcohol. Walter Love, husband of deceased, said that his wife was occasionally ill, but would H3ver go to a doctor.' Ho had never seen her the worse for liquor, though ho admired that she drank at times. On Saturday evening last after tea deceased went out and came hack about 7.H0 o'olcok. She looked as if she had been drinking, though she was not intoxicated. She refused to go with witness and a friend to the pictures, stating that she was tired. When he left the house'she was lying on the bed, but on his return he found her on the floor. Ho endeavoured to raise her, but she refused to move, and asked to bo left alone. Witness then placod a pillow under her head and covered her with a'coat. Next morning he found her dea,d. The' coroner returned a, verdict of death due to haemorrhage of the brain, as the result of alcohol. He added: "1 camrot allow this examination to pass, wit'.iout expressing, my utmost disgust at the callous treatment of the husband ol the deceased, when he found out the condition in which she was, and went to bed leaving her on the flcor,"

caught by the lift. ' thk unauthorised'ush of it. . An inquest regarding the drath of Saul Gnrshook, who was crushed by a lift in ■thepremises of Messrs. lurVcalilic ami Stains, where deceased worked, was held before Dr. M'Arfhur at the Magistrate's Court yesterday afternoon. William Thomas Turner, draper's apprentice, stated that he had .'ecu deceased going up in tho lift before the accident, and that.lie (deceased) had said that he would send the lift down again to that Turner might cross over the well of tho lift. Deceased had his bicycle with him in tho lift. As the lift did "not. coins down again, Turner crossed the well, and was returning when he heard a crash. Surmising something had gone.wrong lie recrossed the well, and notified the sloreman (Laudymore) that .he thought that deceased had pulled the cord the wrong way, and the lift had stuck. The storeman then went up to ascertain what had happened. Questioned by William Waterworth (secretary of the Tailors' Union) as to when the two passenger lifts were ready to be used, Turner replied that they started about. 10 a.m. The means of getting to the workroom were either by tils cargo lift or Hie ttairs. ■ ■ . Dr. Henry stated that lie had been called shortly after 8 a.m. on Saturday, and had found the body of a man jammed between the floor of the lift and tho wall of (lie well. Life was then extinct. George Laudymore, an employee of Messrs. Kirkcaldie and Stains, raid, that there were five storcnien employed, and each worked tho lift when necessary in tho ordniary course of business. He- knew deceased by sight only. His d'utv at 8 o'clock in the morning was to take the ■milk up to the kitchen, and ho had on previous occasions taken; deceased up with him and put hiiiv off at the third floor. On the morning in question lie did not see tho deceased, .ami when he catno to take the milk up he vfouml' that tho lift had gone. up.. Ho looked up the well and saw the lilt at tholthird-floo'r. to Turner, who.said that something had. jammed the machinery. Ho (Laudymore) then walked up the back staircase and found deceased's body caught between the floor of the lift, and the wall of the well. Air. Le Creu asked:. What .is .there to give, notice to anyone walking from 'Johnston Street direct into the warehouse? . ■Witness replied Hint he knew of no warning, nor did he think there was one. Charles John Drewett. electrician, who has been supervising the lifts for the last six weeks, in the absence of the electrician, slated that he inspected the lifts every morning, and also on the morning of the accident. The rate of speed of the lift was about.CO feet per minute. Frederick G. l'age, ■ manager for iftssrs. Kirkcaldie and Stains produced a certificate from the inspector of machinery, certifying that the lift:, was propoi'iy fenced and protected. The electrician hail on two or three occasions warned deceasel not to use the lift. Tlio, instructions were that only storcnien were to use the lift, and they were also responsible for the closing of the outer doors. The coroner's verdict was that death was duo to deceased being crushed in tho cargo lift at the premises of Messrs. Kirkcaldie and Stains. Deceased a=caad-c-d in the lift without any'authority cr permission, and through some mistake in the management, of tho lift at the third fiwir, he was crushed between it and the vail of the lift well. The coroner wai ol the opinion that no lAirae could be attached to tho firm on account of the accident, Mr. E. C. Lovvey 'appeared on behalf of the widow ami,.Mr. Kircaldie for the firm.

|.'. , FATAT/lIAEJrOKRHACIJJ. An inquest was hold before Br. A M'ArIhur, H.SL, at J'J ,Bouleott Street, jestcrilny.. inquiring into the dcntli of John L«>, who died there on Siindnv night Dr. Henry Pollen staled Mint he had received n oall to iO Boulcott Htreet about 10.15 p.m. Inst Sunday. When he arrived there he found that deceased was dead. He was ot opinion that death was duo to an extensive haemorrhage of Hie lungs. Airs. Ellen Jones, boardinghoiise-Kcener and sister of the deceased, slated that deceased had heen'suffering from a cold for some months past, and 'altitough. he had taken cough mixtures, he had not seen a doctor. Ho was between 65 and G6 years of age, and a single man. He hail ap nearal quite well at tea time, after which he retired early to his own room, and witness did not see him again until about 11.30. He was.then lying outside the back door. A doctor was telephoned for. The coroner's verdict was in accordance with medical testimony,. that death was due to extensive haemorrhage of the lungs.