ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 20058, 26 December 1928, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

SLIPPED INTO WATER. Shortly before 9 last night (states a Wellington Association message), a man, whose name has not yet been ascertained, was sitting with a companion on Jervois quay wharf, when he slipped over the side and fell into the water. A crowd soon gathered, but no trace of the man could be seen. Constable M‘Rae and other police officers dragged the water in the vicinity, but to no purpose. The other man was arrested for drunkenness. FATALLY CRUSHED. Trevor William M'Cullem, single, aged twenty-nine, died in Wellington Hospital yesterday from injuries received during shunting operations at Thorndon railway yards on Christmas Eve. M'Cullem. who was crushed between two trucks, was taken to hospital in a serious condition, suffering from a badly-crushed thigh and a fractured pelvis.—Press Association. WORRY. At the inquest on the body of Jules Victor Charles, picture framer, who died from injuries received through jumping from Grafton bridge (Auckland), evidence was given that the deceased in a statement in hospital, said he had been worried about his wife, who had had a nervous breakdown, and he jumped from the bridge at midnight. A formal verdict was returned. TEACHER IN CAR SMASH. Ella Constance ■ Hack, a school teacher, single, is now in Christchurch Hospital with serious injuries as the result of a motor car she was driving at Lyttelton yesterday getting out of control and dashing into a fence .at forty miles an hour.—Press Association.