ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 19665, 19 September 1927, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

SUFFERED FROM ILL-HEALTH. Hector Frank Burgess, aged 25, a son of Mr A. S. Burgess, a prominent business man in Wanganui, was found dead at his home on Saturday night with a service rifle beside him. It is staled that lie hud suffered ill-health for some time. THROWN FROM HORSE. Thomas Alfred Wood, a married man, of llarcwood, was admitted to the Christchurch Hospital late on Saturday afternoon suffering from concussion and facial injuries, lie was riding a horse through the square when the animal bolted down Colombo street, and falling, throw the rider heavily. Woods’s condition is serious. INJURED IN A MOTOR COLLISION. By a collision between a motor car and a motor cycle on the Upper Hutt N. Parata and J. Aldridge, two Public Works laborers, who wore riding the cycle, had their legs fractured, and are in a serious condition. J. Frame, who was in the car, received injuries to his head.—Wellington Press Association telegram. THROWN FROM HORSE. Suffering with abrasions on. the face and hack, caused through being thrown from a horse at Hooper’s Inlet, Sydney Karctai, aged thirty-one, married, was taken to tho hospital yesterday evening at 5,30. KILLED BY FALLING STACK. A Thames Association message states that Thomas Perry, aged fifty-seven, a single man, employed by A. J. Zcascman, farmer, of Hauraki Plains, was killed last evening by a stack of hay falling on him. STRUCK DOWN BY LORRY. An Association telegram from Hastings states that Patrick Diamond, aged seventy-three, who was knocked down in the street on Friday as tlie result of a collision with a motor lorry, died in Napier Hospital this morning. The driver, Claude Mudgway, was crossing tho railway line, when a noise at the rear caused him to look hack, and just then the vehicle struck Diamond, who was thrown on the ground between the wheels, which did not go oyer him. On removal to the hospital bis condition was reported as satisfactory, but he gradually sank. RAILWAY FIREMAN KILLED. James M'Caughan, married, aged about twenty-six, a railway fireman, while uncoupling an engine from trucks was knocked down by wagons being shunted on an adjoining line. Ho was severely crushed, and died before reacliing the hospital.—lnvercargill Press Association telegram.