MYSTERIOUS ACCIDENT.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1955, 12 January 1914, Page 6

MYSTERIOUS ACCIDENT.

DOCTOR'S SKULL FRACTURED.: (By Tolegraph—Prsus AbjoolmlodJ Auckland, January-10. Dr. F. W. King, a well-known Auckland practitioner, was the victim of a mysterious and very severe accident last ovening. About 8 o'clock the motorman of a tram-car descending Wellesley Street, noticed the body of a man lying near the other set of rails and 6topped his car to investigate. Major Plugge and a member of the New Zealand Medical Corps who Tvcro first to render assistance found that the man was Dr. King, who was insensible and bleeding profusely from the right ear. There were no marks of violence on tho head. Tho police having been . summoned, Dr. King was taken on, a stretcher to his homo in Symouds Streot, where Dr. W. H, Parkes pronounced his case to be; one of severe fracture of the base of the skull, and ordered his removal to tho Hospital. This afternoon Dr. King was still in an unconscious condition, and tho case was considered very critical, How tho accident occurred is not known, but it has been suggested that Dr. King may have fallen from a tram-car. No one, however, appears to have seen any such occurrence. ;.;,:■■'., .;