ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2386, 16 February 1915, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

FATAL FALL DOWN STAIRS. An inquest was held by Mr. D, G A. Cooper, S.M., at the Hospital yes* torday afternoon into the death of Charles Shears who died at the institution on Saturday afternoon from injuries received through falling down some stairs on February 4 last. From the evidence given it appeared that deceased, who was a boarder at a house in Pipitea Street was coming down stairs with another young man when he slipped and fell to the bottom of a whole flight of steps. He went to bed as usual that night, but.next morning complained that .he was ill. A doctor was called in and Shears was ordered to bo removed to the. Hospital. There an operation was performed, but deceased never recovered.

The Coroner returned a verdict m accordance with the medical evidence. That deceased died from shock and haemorrhage from injuries received by accidentally falling down a flight of stairs.

DEATH OF A SERGEANT-MAJOR. (By Telegraph.--Press Association.) Christchurch, Februaxy 15. At the adjourned, inquest regarding the death of Sergeant-Major Soott, who shot himself at the riverbank, the verdict_ was that deceased had committed suicide while temporarily insane. Mrs. Mary Scott, of Dunedin, gave evidenco that her son had been depressed because he had not been allowed to go with the Reinforcements. Deceased leaves a. wife and three children. TRAMCAR FATALITY. Christchurch, February 15. Mrs. E. Oullen, of Ashburton, who was admitted to tho Hospital last week suffering from concussion of the brain, as the result of stepping off a tramcar in Moorhouse Avenue whilst it was in motion, died at the Hospital to-day. FALL FROM A TRAMCAR. Auckland,' February 15. Jessio Hale, aged 20 years, fell from I a tramcar at Epsom, and sustained a fractured skull. Sho was removed to the Hospital in a semi-conscious condition. DEATH OF A BOXER; Clsbame, February 15. The inquest on the lad Forman, who died after a boxing contest, has not concluded. The evidence showed that the deceased never had a day's illness, and died as the result of a clot of blood in the motor area of the brain. Counsel for the deceased's mother questioned the wisdom of allowing a youth of only 16 to compete in a heavy-weight bp\ing championship.

DRIVER BLAMED .FOR MOTOR ACCIDENT. Cisbome, February 15. At the inquest on "Snowie" Howie, who died through a motor-car knocking him down in . Gladstone Road on Saturday, the jury returned a verdict that the accident was directly due to the driver, Paku Peakman, losing his nerve and becoming confused by the fact of having collided with a cyclist just previously. ( INJURED JOCKEY. Cisbome, February 15. The joefeoy, Poulgrain, who was seriously injured at the local races on Thursday, has now regained consciousness. . i THE MAKARA SHOOTING ACCIDENT. Robert Cromwell,' the boy who was seriously injured as the result of a gun Occident at Makara on Saturday afternoon, was reported from the Hospital last night to be in the same : condition as when he was admitted to the institution.