ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2574, 23 September 1915, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

e 9'' . CRUSHED BETWEEN TRUCKS. Sir. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., lield an inquest at the Hospital yesterday afternoon touching the death of Thomas Quinn, a wliarf labourer, who succumbed on Saturday to injuries received through being crushed between trucks on tho Railway' Wharf on tho previous Monday. . Sergeant O'Halloran represented the police, Mr. P. J. o'Regan appearing for. the relatives of tho deceased. '■

Dr. P. F. M'Evedy gave evidence as to deceased's injuries, and Dr. I. G. Brownle9, of the Hospital staff, stated that, when admitted to tlio institution, Quinn was apparently ' Buffering from abdominal injuries, and was in a condition of ; severe slicck. An operation was performed in the Hospital,, but the patient sank and died from general peritonitis. A -brother of the deceased identified the body as that of Thomas Quinn, who was a single man, 24 years of age. 'A verdict was returned in accordance with the medical. testimony, the Coroner remarking that everything possiblo had apparently been done for the deceased after th& accident.

LITTLE BOY'S RIDE TO DEATH. Subsequently an inquest was held into the circumstances connected with the death of John Ward, aged five years, who was run over by the. trailer of tho Wellington Gas Company's steam wagon on. Saturday afternoon last. Mr. T. Neave appeared for the driver of the wagon and for the Wellington Gas Company, while Mr. P. J. O'Regan appeared for the parents of the child. It appeared that when the wagon was coming down Itiddiford Street, debased was seon riding on the drawbar Between the wagon and the trailer. The motonnan of a passing traincar endeavoured to warn the driver of the wagon,' but before the warning could be given the lad either jumped or fell off and was run over by' the trailer. Ho received terrible injuries, and; was removed to the Hospital, where he died three hours lator. ,: Dr. S. Scoullar gave the cause of death as internal hemorrhage due to lupture of the liver. No one could bo found to state how the deceased came to, bo riding on the drawbar. ': . The inquest was adjourned until this morning for; formal evidence as to identification; The Coroner remarked that it was clear that death was' tho result of a puro accident.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. A married woman named 'Alice O'Brien, living with her husband in Orr Street, Newtown, attempted to commit suicide ,by cutting her throat yesterday. At the time of the occurrence she was staying with some friends •at Campbell Street, Karori, and at about 10 a.m. yesterday went into the bathroom, and ,was discovered shortly afterwards with her throaty very soverely .cut. Coustable M'Anerin was summoned,and after 'being attended by Dr. Henry :the woman was iromoved to. the Hospital, where: she was reported ,-last night t&ibo36ing<'as welUa's"cbuld be expected. Mrs. O'BrieUj who is 35 years of age, is stated to have been in a very despondent state of mind recently.,. , ~ . . .