ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 65, 10 December 1919, Page 11

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

FATALITY AT R-OTORUA. Bj Telegraph -Prefia Ateoointion. Rotcrua, December 0. Cliarlosi Baker, aged sixty-seven, a visitor: from Ashburtou, was found dead in a private bath iu the main bathhouse. 110 suffered from heart trouble. STRANGE DEATH OF A HORSEMAN. Invcrcarijill, December 9. A jingle man named Michael O'Connor, agc-il IS years, was accidentally killed at South Hillend last evening. He was riding a horsq into stables when he struck his head against the top beam of tho door. Death was- almost instantaneous. DEATH FROM LOCKJAW. Opotiki, December .9. Alfred James Johnston died at tho Opotiki Hospital yesterday from lockjaw caused in the first place by a slight flick on the- ear with the lash of a stockwhip which he was using about a fortnight ago. Johnston had tied a string frcni an artificial manure sack on tilie whip for a temporary lash. Deceased was aged seventeen, years. 110 hail been employed on a. local farm for two years. His parents reside in Auckland. FATAL. LORRY ACCIDENT. Timaru, December 9. An inquest was held at Fairlie into a fatal accident bv which <•>. lorry driver named Richard Patrick O'Brien, a returned soldier who was for a short time a prisoner in Germany, lost his life. Deceased was Inking a lead of timber from Fairlio to Tekapo. It is supposed that ho missed in changing gear when climbing out of Iho gully near Burke's Pass, and tho lorry ran back and capsized, and O'Brien was killed by the timber fa'.ilng on his head. He was given a military funeral at Timaru.