ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 20140, 3 April 1929, Page 11

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

MOTOR CYCLE FATALITY. Tliat death was due to contusion of the brain caused by accidentally fallinu; from a motor cycle was the verdict given this morning by Mr J. H. Bartholomew. S.M., sitting as,coroner at an inquest, hel l on David Egbert Morgan, who died in the Dunedin Hospital on March 2G after having been thrown from his motor cycle in the vicinity of Palmerston South the previous evening. Sergeant Vaughan conducted the inquiry for the police. John Kerse, a resident of Palmerston, said that he saw the deceased riding along Tiverton street or. his motor cycle at about thirty miles per hour. Sndlenly iie heard a crash, and on running to investigate, lie found the deceased lying on the road. He despatched a boy for a doctor. It ivn. not a bad road, but the pothole was affected by the heavy rain, and apparently the cycle had skidded alter getting over the hole. Patrick Joseph Maggin, police constable at Palmerston, described the place where the accident had taken place, and in reference to the machine said that the front mudguard had bee. pushed through the forks, and the front forks were bent. From the appearance of the cycle it looked as though a stone had been caught between the tyre and the mudguard, thus causing a capsize. Thera was a little loose shingle about. He assisted the injured man to a house near by, and waited until the ambulance came to take him to the hospital. FATAL BURNS. The death occurred at Cook Hospital (Gisborne) yesterday afternoon, of Charles Randel, forty-one years, married, as the result of severe burns which ho received when a forty-five-gallon drum of petrol caught fire at his home on Tuesday evening. The deceased received the injuries while attempting to turn off the tap of the benzine drum. RUN DOWN BY CAR. A fatal accident occurred on the Main South road near Hampden about dusk on Monday' evening. A youth named Magnus Laing. with a companion. was cycling south, when he was overtaken and knocked down by a car driven by Moss Wylie, a University student who was returning to Dunedin. Death was almost instantaneous. The unfortunate lad was a member of a well-known Hampden family.—Oamarfi message. WANDERED TO HIS DEATH. An Auckland Association message states that William Gordon, aged seventy-four, an inmate of the Army Prison Gate Home for several years, wandered away on Monday, and was admitted to Auckland Hospital on Tuesday with a fractured skull, from which he died this morning. POSTAL OFFICIAL’S DEATH. Henry Brabant, a postal official at Waitara, aged thirty-four, was found dead in his backyard this morning with a revolver beside him. He had suffered from war service.—New Plymouth Press Association telegram.