ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 19781, 3 February 1928, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

GOLFERS INJURED. D. Pharazyn (Napier) and J. Hutchinson (England), occupants of a threeseater car, received injuries and were admitted to Pnhintua Hospital, but the injuries are not considered to be of a serious nature. Tho car overturned on some loose metal on the main road between Mangatainoka and Ngawapurua, the occupants being badly cut and bruised, and they all suffered from shock. They were returning to Napier after competing at the New Zealand golf championships at Miramar.—Press Association. MINOR MISHAPS. C. Smith, a porter at the Grand Hotel, Wellington, dislocated his right elbow and badly lacerated the upper part of one arm through being caught in a lift. He was conveyed to the hospital. A. Yarrol, a laborer, of 76 Taranaki street, Wellington, slipped on the railway lino and received a large lacerated wound in toe right leg. He was removed to hospital. Mrs C. Baskin, of 60 Salamanca load, Wellington, when turning away from replying to a telephone call, slipped and fell heavily and fractured her left thigh. She was removed to the hospital. RAZOR GASHES. An elderly man named Edward Carr, of Waihao Forks, a blacksmith, is an inmate of the Waimate Hospital suffering from razor gashes in the throat. The police are making inquiries.—Press Association. FOUND DYING. In a dying condition in a gas-filled room, Sirs May Marshal), aged fortytwo, was found by her husband at her home in Now Brighton (Canterbury). She had been an inmate of an institution. from which she had escaped. On Thursday evening her husband searched for her till midnight, but found _ no trace of her till yesterday morning, when he went hack to his home and found his wife lying beside the gas ring. She was unconscious, and died, despite the efforts of her husband and a doctor to revive her. She left an unsigned note saying that she had entered the house bv the window, that she was dead beat, and did not know what to do.— Press Association. SECOND VICTIM DEAD. A Gisborne Association message states that both little girls injured in Wednesday’s motor accident have suecumbed, the second child, Fay Third, aged five years, having died in hospital last night. f A message on Wednesday stated: “Hurrying to school across the Awajiuni road, two girls—Edna, aged 8 and Fay, aged s—daughters of Mr Allan Third, of Salisbury road, were run down by a car, Edua being killed instantly, while the other girl was severely injured.]