ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2351, 6 January 1915, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

'ACCIDENTALLY KILLED. The inquest into the death, of Charles James wood, wharf labourer, who died as the result of injuries received through an accident on the Wharf on Wednesday last, was concluded yeterday before Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M. Thomas Gillies, wharf labourer, 6aid that on Wednesday last he was working with' deceased on the Wharf. Just before the accident they were getting the trucks ready/Witness heard someone cry out, "Look out for the shunt." He jumped clear, although he sang out to Wood, but deceased was caught between the buffers. Witness did not see the actual accident. This concluded the evidence, and the Coroner returned a verdict that deceased died from septic perotinitis from the rupture of the small bowel caused by injuries accidentally received while shunting trucks on the wharf. No blame was attachable to anyone. At the hearing of the inquest Mr. J. F. W. Dickson appeared for deceased's: relatives, Mr. R. B. Williams instructed by Messrs Bell, Gully, Bell, and Meyers, appeared for the N.Z. Shipping Co., and Sergt. O'Halloran for the police. • MISSING MAN'S BODY FOUND. (By TeteeraDh.—Press ■ Association.) ■ Inveroargill, Jan. 5. John Daniel M'Farlane, aged 45 years, who. has been missing from his home at Waikiwi, was found in Thomson's Bush with the jugular vein severed. Apparently he had committed 6uicide. DANNEVIEKE BUGGY FATALITY. Dannevirke, Jan.'s. At the inquest on Grace Pallesen, the victim of the fatal buggy accident on Ormondville Road, a, verdict was returned of death from internal bleeding caused by a buggy accident. CHILD'S SUDDEN DEATH. Dunedln. January 5. Jas. William Blacklock, aged five years, a son of Wm. Blacklock, an ironmoulder, living in Ptunket Street, St. Kilda. died suddenly this morning. The child suffered from infantile paralysis some, time ago.