ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1666, 5 February 1913, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

STONE-THROWING: "■ A•' SAD SEQUEL. (By Telegraph.—Pre6a Association.) .'.'"■, Dunedin, February 4, A stone-throwing episode nt liavensbourne lind.a sad sequel attho Hospital. Inst night, when a boy named Cecil Robert Randall. .(11 'years.'of'-age) died-froni haemorrhage of the brain, Whibt playing with other boys'on Sunday, lie. was struck on the head by a stone' thrown vby '-."ft companion. Yesterday mor'ning-ho became' unconscious,. and nn operation was, iiu- ■ mediately •"necessary,, owing to haemorrhage.- The operation was performed at the Hospital last night, and at first lie appeared to, have 'a clfarice'of,■.recovery. However, lie. took a. turn for the worse, and died miring the. night. ~, -

' SHUNTING FATALITY; V; . '"'" ,' b'unodi'n, February i. An inquest on the body of if arch Ninian Johnson,' surfaceman, who was '.fatally,injured through'.being dragged by,a shunting engine on Saturday, wis held to-day." The evidence showed that the deceased must have riia'db a mistake, ris to the shunt that'.was in progress, thinking, the engine 'would take a different lino. froih v that-'ho. was .working 'on. ■ Tho,- : ;coroner,;: Mr. Graham, said'there seemed: to bo'nb, evidence of negligence.,-, Tho. only mysterious, point had' Wen how, tho driver did not see the'man,' and that was explained by the fact that the deceased - was close enough to tho engine to make it possible for him to be overlooked,; He wpuld find, that death was:due;to. injuries caused by being accidentally run over by an engine.. JPOUNH IN OTAGO*'HARBOUR.';,'' ■: ■,'•..' ,t •','.'''-..■ Duricdih, February i' '■'.-The ■'; body 'of- a- nian .'about. ; fifty years of ago was'"found, in the. Upper; Harbour this morning. It had,on. it. twenty-five bank' notes, four; 'sovereigns,: and' n.'return: ticket'to Queenstown. Tho .probabilities are that tho'man' fell '.iiito. the,- water .yesterday. - Thero ' "are'! no: marks of violence... • -\.;' ,/ '. ''-'"' ■''■". A.,lnter iiicssng'o states .that the body has been identified as 'that of Andrew Ferens, apparently about 50 years of age. He was-a stranger here. •'-.■: '.. '.' . :' : AN. INQUEST., ~/"!;•'.' . l Ashbiirtdn, February' "i,\ ..'.•At-the inquest-'touching the.death,Of Richard Marshall, a verdict was returned, that death Was dub" to,,fcyncbpe,; acceler-', ated by heart failure, ' ' ':...' ;/ '. a.fata;l fall.'■'.. -• ': . February, i;: 'Samuel Howdeh, 50' years of;, age, was killed at Huntly to-day. •Deceased was employed on.the erection.of a bridge over) the Waikato, and fell.; from a; pile-, driving machine a distance : bf'4o feet into the'' river, striking his head oh a punt in .'falling,'■ Tho. body vfas not recovered for.'over an hour. Bowden's skull was badly fractured, and tho right wrist broken. It is most probable he was dead before reaching the water...':.-''.' ■.

/ TRAM CONDUCTOR HURT., ■;'■■'. ■Early yesterday; morning Tram-Conduc-tor M'Guife was jolted off a car at.Kilbirnie, and bruised about tKo hands and knees, and also .shaken, rather severely. The accident happened at the place wliorti Conductor Aither was fatally injured a few years ago. ',: ."' ..-,'/■■.

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