ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2679, 27 January 1916, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

• • — * A SOLDIER'S DEATH. Mr. D. G. A, Cooper, S.M., held an inquest at Trenthaw yesterday touching the death of George Frederick Stewart, aged 28 years, a private in E Company, Ninth Reinforcements, sur-geon-Captain F. R. Hotop, who was called to attend deceased on Monday, morning last, gave it as his opinion that death was due to formalin poisoning. The other evidence showed that deceased drank half a pint of formalin iu mistake for water, and died "within half an hour. A verdict was returned .that death resulted from formalin poison, accidentally self-administeredi

,■•■ INQUEST AT PETONE.. ;; . An'inquest concerning the death'of ■ John Bell Shelbourne, who was bur £: cd to death at Petone on January 17 was held yesterday at Petone by; the Coroner (Mr. D. G. A. Cooper). It was stated in evidence that the deceased was in occupation of a .two-story building at the rear of the business premises of Messrs. Wearne and Collins, in Jackson Street, and for the last . five or six months had been sleeping there. It was also stated that Shelboume was a heavy smoker, waft somewhat- deaf. After hearing the evidence the Coroner's verdict was that deceased was accidentally burned oe .the morniug .of January 17 by the burning of the premises occupied by him'. There was no evidence to show bow the fire originate. HARBOUR ACCIDENT. _ About 10.80 o'clock last evening ail elderly man, whose name could not be ; ascertained, fell between the GorinthW and the wharf. After some trouble he was'rescued by three policemen,-who happened to be in the vicinity. Artificial respiration proved to be success- -: ful and the man was sent to tho. hoE< pital. Latest advico from that insti'.: tution shows that he was still uncon< scious. ■ ■ - FATAL STREET ACCIDENT. By Telegraph—Press Association. - Auckland, January 26. Edward Neal, a married man, aged thirty-two, was lcilled oil the lvhybsr Pass Road this morniug. He was driving an ice-van and two horses, when the animals swerved in front of a tram going down hill while another car ..was approaching from an opposite direction. The cars pulled up. Both horses were,, Vying between the rails. Neal was thrown clear of the tramline, but sus« iained injuries from which he died m the hospital two hours later. FATAL TRAM COLLISION. Auckland, January 26. A violent collision occurred iu Khyber Pass this morning between a van. owned by Messrs. R. and W. Hellaby, Ltd., and a tramcar bound from Onehunga to the city. The driver, Ernest Neal, had the baso of his skull fractured, and died within an hour at the hospital. Both horses were severely c\itj and one had to be destroyed. The deceased was 32 years of age, with' a wife and two children. The van was half-way down the iu- - cline when two trams approached fromopposite directions. Just as they drew' near, the horses attached to "the van suddenly swerved acrosß both, sets of'' rails. One tram stnick thovan and tha other collided with the horses. Thedriver of the. van was, thrown hoavily, and never recovered.consciousness. .Tha motormen did everything possible to avoid collision, but tho 'horses "had' swerved and ther were top late to avoidjJlA Amulaiit.