ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1986, 17 February 1914, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

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AFFAIR.IN A CANOE. Wanganul, February I<s. Extraordinary' evidence was given at tiio inquest to-day touching the death of a roadman named' Bert Jones, who was drowned in the river at Kaiwhaiki On Tuesday last; Timothy Hogan stated that deceased and he, who were engaged in roadmaking, walked to the Upokcmgaroa Hotel, where they staged till n'ooii. They had four or five ©inks, and they took' away with them three bottles of beef and one bottle; of whisky, - oin o of of which they drank on 1 tho way to the camp.' They'reached a point on the river opposite to tho camp about 4.43 p.mtr and called far a cafloe. A boy brought one across, but Hogan' refused to writer it, thinking ■ the craft unsafe. Jones, however, wont in the canoe, which he rocked till it capsized. Th© boy swam ashore to get assistance for Jones, who was then getting-on the bottom of the upturned cajioe, but, when ho returned, Jones bad sank. A police-.constable said that ho had made inquiries at tho hotel, and was Satisfied that the men were sober'when they left. . A half-filled bottle of whisky was found on the body. The Coroner returned a verdict that deceased was accidentally drotvned through his own recklessness while under the influence'of drink.

> FOUND .MAD. Auckland, February 16. A man named Alee Johnson, a wharf labourer, was found'dead'in a pool of blood outside his lodgings at 3.30 o'clock this morning. Death was probably due to haemorrhage of the lungs. Do ceased was recently employed on. one of 'the intercolonial steamers.'•

•At. the inquest cbiVcerninK the death of Johnson, th©doctor stated-that tho cause of death was severe haemorrhageof .thelungs, .A verditst'syas returned accordingly.

UNSOLVED. FATAIiITT, Chrlstchurph, February 16. 'At 5,30 p.m. .on Saturday the doad body of a young man named Geo. Lindsay Roberts, ag^d'27-years, was found under a tip%ay on the road near Sca-r----gill. Nobody saw the accident, but it is surmised tot Roberts, who bad been carting for lift - brother, was cjos-* irig a .gate-when the horse bolted, and that just as Roberts taught the reins the dray ran up a bSnk, and overturned oil him.' When the body was found the re-iris , were still iii his' hands, and: the ;horso was. lying on its back. TfiE FATAL ROAD RACE. ';,..-'• Waimale, February 16. Wm, G. foster, aged 30, belonging to Timatu, -was yesterday killed in a motor-cycle accident. With others, bo Was ridiftg f-rom.i.Timaru to Osmaru. Near Kribttongly. Park, Wisima.te, ha ran into b cow> qnd was fo&wd lying on the road badly hurt by those coming be* hind, though flo. one. saw. the accident. They took Foster to the hospital, whore it was found that his skull was fractui'ed, and that ho was bleeding. The accident occurred about 11 a.iiu, arid,, at 1 4■ p.m.,-he sucOumbdd to injuries. An inquest will-be held fo-inorrow morning'- '. -...'( : ,...,, : V, '.'.. LETTER-CARRIER ' PaiiniGrston, February 16., A lad named Ernest King, formerly a telegraph' messenger and latterly a letter-carrier, was drowned while bathing with some other convpaffiDUß in thb. Msnawatu River .t.lii-s afteVrtoou. Decease'd got <jut of' his' de'jit'li, and, despite tho effort's of his c67np.3nio.n3 to i s'^yo'liimi r The ! blaly'Tiy.r'beeii : '"%coycre3'' ; l)y the.police. FALL OVER CLAIM FACE, Ounedin, February 16! The police, have been notified that Moses Haiirahan,, 7? y«ars of .age, who resided .at St. Batbans, fell over the face -of .the Scandinavian claim (about 100 feet) yesterday afternoon, and was rendered -unconscious, as well as sustaining a broken leg and general bruises. His recovery is considered improbable.

- SUDDEN DEATH-. Walpawa, February 17. Lucy Emily Rowo, aged forty-two, a married-woman, died suddenly yestei-'-day. A clot of blood on the brain was tho' cause- .of death. BODl' FOUND IN THE RIVER, Wanganyl, February.ls. tho body,of a man named Bc-rt Jones, drowned, in the. river at Kaiwhaike on Tuesday, was found at Upbkbngaro this morning, .