ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 114, 7 February 1919, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

TKAMWAY EMPLOYEE KILLED,

An accident,. attended with fatal results, occurred opposite the Lambton Statiou yesterday morning, the victim toeing an employee of the tramway overhead equipment department named AV. E. H. Southward.

It appears that some repair work was round necessary in. connection with the overhead wires outside the tramway department's pay office, and the.deceased had all but reached the small platform at the top of the ladder on the motor emergency wagon when he by eome means lost his hold and fell. In falling his foot caught in the bottom rung of the ladder, and deceased struck hig head on tho ground. , Dα'. M'Evedy was immediately summoned and ordered Southward's removal to the Hospital, where he died at ,7 o'clock last evening from a .fractured skull. ' '

The late Mr. Southward has been employed as :an electrician in the overhead equipment department for the past three years, and previous to that : was employed as a casual.. HoJ leaves a wife and three children, residing in No. 26 Horner Street, Newtown. ' An inquest will be held, but the date has not ye.t been fixed.

Soutliwood, an employee of the Tramways Department, was- engaged in doing some overhead repairs over the tramways pay-in office, opposite to the Lambton Eailway Station yesterday, when he lost his balance, and fell head , first' on to the road, a distance of about 12ft., fracturing his ski|U. After he had been attended to by Dr. M'Rvedy he was removed in nn unconscious condition to the hospital, where he is doing as well as can be expected. Southwood is a Inarried man, about 35 years of age, and his home is in Horner Street, South Wellington.

. DEPRESSED WIDOW'S. SUICIDE." By Telegraph—Press Association. ■ Aucklartd, February- 6. At the inquest to-day concerning the death of Mrs. Olive Colville, widow- of the- late Rev. A. H. Colville, who disappeared fromtthe transport Oxfordshire while the vessel 'was. at anchor in quarantine, and whose body, wns subsequently washed ashore, a. -rerdict of suicide by drowning while i. , h state of mental depression was returned; The evidenco showed that Mrs. Colville never recovered from the loss of her husband.* whoso body she had taken to England for burial.