ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2683, 1 February 1916, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

DEATH OF A SOLDIER, At tho Magistrate's Court yesterday, afternoon t'hero ivas commenced an inquest concerning the death of George Ernest Malcolm Aitchison, a soldier, who was killed by a train near Belmont oil Friday night. After the Coroner (Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M.) had heard evidenco of identification, the inquest was adjourned sino die. GUN ACCIDENT. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, January 41. Hugh Shersou, 39 years of ago, a grocer, residing in Burnley Terrace, Mount Eden, went to work to clean a gun on Sunday afternoon. A shot was heard, and Shersou was found dead, shot through the heart. Ho was a married man with two children. : MOTOR-CAR FATALITY. , Timaru, January 31. Henry Halliday, aged about 50 years, of Itoslyn, Duueuin, was killed in a motor-car accident near Temuka at 4.<10 p.m. on Saturday. Mrs. Scott, of llotherain, Amnri, and her two daughters, Annie, and Alice Scott, escaped with bruises and shock. Mr. Halliday, to avoid another car, turned too sharply, a tire burst, and the car turned over twice, and came to a stop on its side, with. Halliday underneath. He sustained a crushed chest 1 and face. DROWNED WHILE BATHING. Eketahuna, January 31. Leonard Victor Mitcholi, nine years old, whose parents reside at Woodville, was drowned while bathing in the Makakahi River at Hanuia yesterday. Ho went to bathe with other boys, ono of whom made'repeated plucky attempts to rescue him. A man who was unable to swim arrived and also tried to rescue the boy. The body was recovered an hour later. The police and a doctor attempted artificial respiration, "but without result. AN INQUEST. Timaru, January 31. At the inquest on Henry Halliday, of Dunedln, who was killed near Temuka on Saturday through being crushed by the car he was .driving capsizing in conteequeuce of a tyre bursting, the Coroner recorded a verdict in accordance wit-li that fact, remarking that there was no ovidenco of carelessness on anyone else's part. Tho evidence of the driver accompanying ..the car suggested that the tyro burst through deceased making a suddc-n swervo.