ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 241, 5 July 1919, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

.. ;■_ _* —. —. .' *: KILLED BY A TRAIN. By Telegraph—Frees Association Te Kuiti, July i.. At the inquest on Thomas Lou-rie, who w.is killed by'a train whilo on a jigger, a verdict, of accidental death was returned, no 'blame being'attachable to anyone. The jury added a rider that all engine-drivers should blow whistles when approaching dangerous curves. .' CAUGHT IN 'MACHINERY. Eltham, July L There was a serious accident at Wilkinson's Bone Mill .at mid-day. AVilliain Stanners, an old and lesoected resident, was caught: in (lie machinery and horribly crushed and mangled. Death was instantaneous. INQUEST'ON CAPTAIN. DUVAL.' Auckland, July,'*.. 'Che inquest, into the death ofr Captain Arthur Duvall, who was found dead m the testing laboratory at. (he Government ammunition works at Mount; Ktlon, «'« hold at the- morgue this morning. C. R Hill, nephew of- the deceased, save evidence that Captain Duvall had suffered from 'internal trouble, which sometimes gave him considerable, pain, but lie had lately seemed to improve. 13. E. Lambert, of the tiv-ting stalt of the Ordnance Department, stated that deceased was his immediate superior-officer. Captain Duvall was in the habit of-see-ing him oven- day. He. saw deceased ar< rive about 9.30 a.m., when his demeanour seemed to bo as usual. Witness went to the laboratory about 10.40, and on openiug the door found deceased lying on Ills' face with n. Service rifle across his hojly. He immediately reported the discovery. Captain L. V. M'Mair, Now Zealand Army Ordnance Department, stated that he examined the rille. There was only one empty cartridge case in the chamber, and the- cut-off was closed. Captain 'Duvall constantly had a number of rifto about him for the purposes of testing" The trade of the bullet; pointed upwards. The innncst was adjourned in order that a doctor might make n mere complete examination of the body. Captain Duvall is to be accorded a. military funeral.