ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2135, 29 April 1914, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

EXPRESSMAN'S DEATfi. Michael Bovve, an expressman, *te> mot with a serious a.cei.dent by fulling from iii-3 vcliicle in John Street About a, foftniffht ago, died at the hospital ypstwday afterfcboft. INQUEST AT PETDNE. Mi\ D. G, A. ■Cooper, coroner, con* ducted an. inquest yesterday cmiconiing tho death of Mrs, Jean Itebia'teen, which occurred on Stmdiiy cyeiiiuß at her residence, -17 Boaeli Street, Petjiue. I)f, 1. "Williiils deposed that lie was scut, for at- about 0.30 p.m. on Sunday to'attend t!io caso, twfc feiiiut, lii'o extinct. A post-wortom osnaiJiatidii had disclosed thai, the loft oortmnry a;riefy had narrmved to about ms.e4hir4 of its normal size. In his -opinion death w»s <iiM to heart failures resulting from the, aboro pause. WiWum Alfred Collins, labourer, who resided at tho Iwnie of deceased, deptjsect that Mrs. Bobcrtsoii lwd boon .sofe«d with a fainting 'Wd he cnlloa a-n----otlio-r boarded jiamed Chas. Wilson to go for a doctor. Same time previously deceased liad undergone- m» operation at fto Wellington Hospital, aiisl had afterwards been ftttewtied by -a meelieiil inaft until lier roinoval to Pstoiie lasi week, Chas,_ Wilson, labourer, corroborated : tliis evidence. Tho CorOHcr returned n vei'dict in ao* £or.£j.u(ra with tiro medical cvidiiiio?. A BABY'S SAD DEATH. (By Ttksra.jh.— Prwn assooifttlon.) Ashftufton.) j\j>ri,l 28, : A nine-months-old eon of Jtrs. 1 ,, . S. Wilcoeks, a' widow, residing at the h> . sidewjc of Mr.- W. H. Fii-o, of Seafletd > Hoad, 'Aslibuj'toDj wot his deatli this .umrutng iu a peculiar niafiiici , . It a.p- i pours that at 10 o'clock tho mother put I tho baby to sleep in a go-cort, She tiwl hh cloihfts to tho Isadc of tfio \>ci'ankbu<' Ifttor with a tßpc, st> that he could not fJill oat iii her Absowo, aiif) left him , in tho kit-ebon. Site tiieii, m conipiiny ! with yiv. Price, drove to Titwalil,' aibi j after caliing at »1 house there returned to tlio resldeuce at Seflfield Sosd, h'avi'is.g been absent about an hour. In tiioj hitobon she saw the ciiikl stisfMidfrd bi?- i tweeft the go-cart and tbo Rant by t.lie tape. B\m hnotedittloly gat him. in her anils, drovo tn Asliburten and consulted a doctorj but t-be medical wati pf.aiimi.tw> ed liio oj;tii)et. It seom* thai- tho baby : strngglcd out of tlio norambalatw, a.nd fell ever the si««, and was held in sudi | ■a position by the tape ut> t.o e.is.iso ileiith. Tito inquest was adjourned till Fri(]a,V to allow «f a iKist-HMrtetti oxaminasioH being jfcatlc.