TWO INQUESTS YESTERDAY

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 209, 29 May 1920, Page 12

TWO INQUESTS YESTERDAY

. 'MAN KNOCKED DOWN BY TRAU; ; ;li®M - by '.Mr. W. -G. Eiddell,' -S.M-., yesterday, morninp; into the cause .deathv of) William' Brown; 81 years of age ; who ..was knocked over by a:;tramcar in Jervois Quay- on- May ?.7 f nd i dled ,tho Pu'blic Hospital' on • Wednesday--last-. Brown -had been - ■ em---ployed.as.aCpresser by .'the Wellington' AVoollen Company, and was feeble, anil had poor eyesight and Hearing. ActingMotormari Fowler euid that as\his tram bound from Wallace Street.to.Lambton , btetion, rounded tlie corner near Harris Street he sounded his gong'; to ■ move a horso and cart from the line, and he then saw Brown crossing' the' road. He Bounded the gong again, but Brown did , flot seem to hear. * Witness then applied' the brakes, but by then it was impossible to' avoid the. accident,- although) the tram was travelling at not more than' two or three miles per houry Dr; K. G. Salmon' bouse surgeon-at the Hospital, said tliat the' injuries; sustained hy Brown "'were' * superficial'scalp wound, bruises, and a broken' thigh. It was also found that Brown was suffering from acute. bronchitis. This developed -into pneumonia, which was the actual cause of death'.' The Coroner found in accordance with the medical evidence.

i 7 ; ; DEATH OF A WATERSIDES. *■'; • A second inqufcst was lleld at 4 p.mi into "the cause of death of Robert Bus- ; '-Bell Leislnnan, 30 years of age, at the Public Hospital at 8 a.m. on Thursday.' Leishman,, who war' a waterside worker, was enjraged on the s.s. Port Nicholson #t the King's Wharf on Wednesday,, and while/shifting a case in the hold of the 6hip suddenly collapsed, apparently in'a , fit. Ho was taken to the Hospital in an unconscious condition. The deceased was n married -man with two children. Mr." \P. .J. O'Ecgan watched the proceedings! on behalf of the widow, and Mr. P. H. Putnam 'bohalf of the employers, Gan- , naway aid -Co. Dr. Woodhouse, of the Wellington Hospital, said that Leishftnan was adm " dto the Hospital at 10 a.m., and was turn..in a state of 1 coma; there was somr. mtation of th« brain and dis- ' ease of ic kidneys.- There , were- no marks of injury. He rallied under treatment, but died at'B a.m. on Thursday. A postmortem examination disclosed haemorrhage at t!<e base of -the brain, due to the rupture of one'of the small blood'vessels, and the kidneys wero congested. The cause of' death, was 'pressure on the brain caused bv the rupture of the'bloodvessel. Tliie Coroner found in accordance with the mediciil evidence.