ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2269, 1 October 1914, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

INQUEST ON A SKELETON.

IDENTIFIED AS FREDERICK TAYLOR.

An inquest was held.by Mr. D. G. A. Cooper yesterday concerning the uisccvery of the skeleton of Frederick Taylor on the bills above Moiling on Suiday last. William Taylor, son of Frederick Taylor. said that his father, who had resided at 57 Nelson Street, Petone, disappeared on December 10, 1912: He had gone cut. for a walk on that day with liis dog. Tho dog-had returned alone tho following day. The matter had been reported to the police, and a search made, but no trace had ever been found of him ' Witness had read of the finding of the skeleton, and from the description given had been led to 'think it was his father. _ Witness was quite euro that tho, articles found on the skeleton belonged to his father. Witness's father had been ailing before he disappeared, and had from heart troubles and chronic indigestion.' The Coroner returned a verdict that the skeleton found was that of Frederick, Taylor, but that there was no evidence to show how ho had come by his death. SHOT IN THE FOOT. A man named Kcniway was admitted to the Hospital last, night _ suffering from a bullet wound in the 'oofc. Jo is. understood that Kcniway, who works on lliddiford's Station at Oioiigo Orongo, was travelling through some bush with a rifle yesterday, when Ihe trigger caught in a branch, sending the charge into hiff left foot. COUNTY WORKMAN FOUND DEAD. (By Telegraph— Association.) Thames, September 30. Arthur Gray, a county workman, residing at Tara.ru, was found dead yestorday by tho foreman while clearing approaches, working smglo-kanded. It is believed -that a fall of earth had occurred, which, buried Gray. MINING SHAFT FATALITY. Creymoulh, September 30. At the inquest on William Bealo, who was killed through falling to the bottom of the shaft in the Blackwator mino on Monday last, Mr. Hewitt, coroner, expressed the opinion, that provision should bo mado in the Mining Act, siniilar to tho Coal Mines Act, in that no person except brakesmen and cliambernien should be allowed to givo signals for moving the cage in tho shaft. Tho deceased in tho caso in question was a carpenter, and tho practice had been to allow him, owing to tho na- : ture of his work, to go up and down alone.