ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 160, 1 April 1919, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

FARMER ACCIDENTALLY SHOT. By Tqleeranh-Press Aasociatlon. Waimate, March 31. # A* lata,} accident took place this morn"l g at ,„Wa.ikakahi.' A farme*, Christopher William Shrimpton, aged 67, went ou . t ,. eari £ shoot rabbits, and when getting through a wire fence the gun caught and went off. Shrimpton received .the full contents of the gun in the region of the heart. A boy noticed the accident and brought .assistance. A doctor was .summoned, but life was extinct. An inquest will be held to-mor-row*. FATAL MOTOR COLLISION. ~ . Invercargill, March 31. At the inquest on Archibald Craig, who was killed in a motor collision the verdict was one of accidental death. The deceased was riding a motor-cyclo, and on turning a corner ran into a* car oil the main road, sustaining a fracture of the skull. He leaves a. widow and five children. A PEA-RIFLE FATALITY. . Invercargill, March 31. At. the inquest on Edward O'Toole, aged fifteen, a telegraph messenger, a verdict was returned that lie was accidentally shot while taking a pea-riflo to pieces. The evidence showed thatafter firing a few shots lie rested tho muzzle against his abdomon and was unscrewing the lock when tho gun went off. MAN'S SKULL FRACTURED. By Telcgrauh—Press Association. Nelson, March 31. C. A. Grainger, proprietor of a cool store at Appleby, was struck on the head by a metal fan on Saturday. He is suffering from a scalp wound and a fracturo of the skull. ITo was taken to a private hospital, and is not yet out of danger. LAD INJURED BY A SHOTGUN. Dunedin, March 31. Leslie Robinson, aged nineteen years, was admitted to the hospital this evening, from Clydevale, suffering from severe chest injuries inflicted by a shotgun. llis parents reside at Roslyn, and he was employed as a farm labourer.