ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3149, 30 July 1917, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A' SOLDIER'S DEATH. Tho Coroner, Mr. W. G. Riddelf, S.M., on Saturday held an inquest concerning the death at the Victoria Military Hosp'al of Arthur George Tnllosh, .iged 23. The medical evidence wasjhat death was due to haemorrhage of the brain, and a verdict was returned accordingly. Tulloch was a soldier on home service, and just before his death'had been granted ten days' sick leave. BAD FALL FROM A SCAFFOLD. (B.v Telegraph—Special Correspondent.! ♦ Wanganui, July 29. A serious accident occurred to a young man named Thomas Ritchie yesterday, while engaged in building .'.perntions at the new freezing works at Kakariki. Ritch'io was working on some scaffolding at a considerable height above the floor when, it is stated, the plank on which ho was standing gave way. and he was nrecipilated on to the hard concrete below. The unfortunate man sustained a broken leg above the knee and broken and fractured arm. He is a son of Mr. T. Ritchie, of Bm-nsidc, Duntvlin, a wellknown resident of that locality. A seaman named William Hagen, employed on the s.s. Maraioa, was admitted to tho Hospital at -t o'clock on. Saturday afternoon, suffering from an injury to a finger of the left band, which had been caught in a derrick.