ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1855, 15 September 1913, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

BOARDING A MOVING CAR. YOUNG MAN INJURED. A sorious accident befell a young man named Arthur Wm. Breakspear, manager of tho Wellington branch of tho W'undorlich Metal Ceiling Company, on Saturday. About 8.30 a.m. Mr. Broakspear left his hotel, and being rather late attempted to board a Newtown tramcar in Vivian Street whilst it was travelling at full speed on tho down grade from Messrs. Veitoh and Allan's corner to the I'aiiama Hotel. His foot missed tho footboard, and in his fall his feet were caught in the brake, with tho result that he was dragged about fifteen yards before the car cojlld be pulled up. t Mr. Breakspear's knees were badly injured, • but fortunately no bones were broken. A MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR. : SUPPOSED FALL FROM A WINDOW. Early yesterday morning John Joseph O'Neill, electric fitter, was found in a semi-conscious condition,_ lyiog on tho pavement outside the Cricketers' Arms Hotel, Tory Street, dressed in his night attire. Ho was in great pain, and had apparently fallen from the open bedroom window, a distance of about 14 feet. Dr. Mackin was summoned and it was found that O'Neill had cuts on the left eyebrow and hand, and that tho back of his head was swollen. Ho was removed in tlio ambulance to the Hospital, where an'operation was found necessary. O'Neill had retired to bed about one o'clock, along with two men who shared the same bedroom, b.ut tho room-mates did not hear him got up or open tho window.

LIFT ACCIDENT. A sorious lift accident occurred on Saturday morning at Messrs. Kirkcaldie and Stains' drapery establishment, as the result of which a carpet salesman, named W. H. Shipton, is lj'ing at tho Hospital in a. critical condition. It appears that at about 10 o'clock Shipton, who is a married man and lives at Seatoun, was leaning over the grille that guards tho lift on the second story, and was calling down tho lift to tho storeman on the .first story when i •tho- lift descended frflm the third floor and caught him on the back of the neck, • jamming his head between tho lift and tho grille. The attendant immediately stopped the lift, and raised it. Shipton was bleeding and so seriously injured that ho was removed in. the ambulance to .tlio Hospital by order of Dr. Henry, who was called in. A tailor named Garshook, employed at the same establishment, was crushed to death at the head of the lift' about' a year ago. /BOARDINGHOUSE-KEEPER FOUND. DEAD. News, was received by the Wellington police on Saturday that John Henry Stevens (65), boardinghouse-keeper, of Mangamutu, had that morning been found doad at his residence, tho supposed cause of, death, being heart MAN DIES IN THE STREET. An old man, William Samuel Spring, 65 years of ago,' died suddenly on Saturday shortly after alighting from a train at the. Aro Street terminus, and his body is now lying'at tho Morgue awaiting an inquest, which has been fixed by Dr. M'Arthur to bo held at 9 o'clock to-morrow morning. It appears that as 'deceased alighted from the tram he was assisted by Conductor Evans, who formed tho opinion that the old man had had too much to drink. Ten minutes later deoeased was seen to fall by two young ladies, who called . for assistance. . Two men applied artificial respiration until the -arrival ■of Dr. Platts-Mills and Dr. Ramage, who pronounced life extinct. Deceased had been attended by Dr. Young for heart disease but tho condition of the body yesterday was such that tho coroner decided that an inquest must bo held. CARPENTER COMMITS SUICIDE. (By Telegraph—Prcea Association.) Clirlstchurch, September 14. Henry Spencer, a railway carpenter, 39 years old, residing at Lower Riccarton, was found hanging doad this morning in the wash-house. He had used a wiro clothes-line for the purpose. At the inquest it was statod that deceasod had a nervous breakdown two months and a.half ago, and had suffered from insomnia. Ho came out of hospital yesterday afternoon, and slept in a separate room, and, on his wife investi- • gating this morning, she found him as already described. A verdict was recorded that deceased committed suicido by hanging himself whilst in a state of • unsound mind. A HUNTSMAN INJURED. Auckland, September 14. During tho progress of tho Pakuranga Hunt Club's Point-to-Point Steeplechase Meeting on Saturday, a nasty accident occurred to C. C. Dunlop, who was riding Hokonui in tho Light-weight Steeplechase. The' horso struck tho stone wall hard, turning right over the ■rider. It is feared that the injured horseman has suffered a fracture of the pelvis. FOUND DROWNED. Wanganul, Septembor 18. 1 At the inquest on the body of William Osborno, aged 75 years, which was : found in the river yesterday, the ooroner returned a verdict of found drowned.