ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 30, 5 February 1913, Page 10

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

SAD RESULT OF -STONE-THROW- ! mG > I (BTf I£tEGBAPH— rBESS ASSOCIATION.) j. DUNEDIN, 4th February. 1 , A " stone-throwing episode at Ravensbourne had a sad sequel at the hospital last night, when a boy named Cecil Robert Randall (11 years of age) died from haemorrhage of the brain. Whilst playing with other boys on Sunday, he was 3truck on the head by a stone thrown by a companjon.^ Yesterday morning he became unconscious, and an operation was immediately necessary, owing to haemorrhage. The operation was performed at the hospital last night, ■ and at first he appeared to have a chance of recovery. However, he took a turn for the worse, and died during the night. DEATH. OF A RAILWAY SURFACEMAN. DUNEDIN, 4th February. An inquest on the body of March Ninian Johnson, surfaceman, who was fatally injured through being dragged by a shunting engine on Saturday, was held to-day. The evidence showed that the deceased must Jiave made a mistake as to the shunt that was in progress, thinking the engine would take a different line from that ho was working on. The Coroner, Mr. Graham, said there seemed to be no evidence of negligence. The only mysterious point had been how the driver did not see the man, and that was explained by the fact that the deceased was close enough to the engine to make it possible for him to be overlooked. _ He would find that death was due to injuries caused by being accidentally run over by an engine. BODY IDENTIFIED. DUNEDIN, 4th February. The body of the man found in the up per harbour this morning has been identified as that of Andrew Ferens, apparently about 50 , year's of age. He - was a stranger here. SUDDEN DEATH. ASHBURTON, 4th February. At the inquest touching ihe* death of Rich^d Marshall, a verdict was returned that death was clue to syncope, accelerated by theart failure. FATAL FALL FROM A PILE. DRIVER. AUCKLAND, 4th February. Samuel Bowden, 50 years of age, was killed at Huntly to-day. Deceased was employed on the erection of a bridge over the Waikato, and fell from a pile* I driving machine a distance of 40ft into i the river, striking his head on a punt in falling. The body was not recovered for over an hour. Bowden's iskull was badly fractured, and the right wrist broken. It is most probable he was dead before reaching tho water. The strenuous life of to-day renders accident and sickness insurance no longer a luxury, but a necessity. The Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation's new "Leader Policy"i covers all accidents and 50 diseases. Prospectus sent on receipt of application.-— Advt.