ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 22447, 18 September 1936, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

LIFT WELL TRAGEDY. The body of H. F. Churton, aged 63, married, a well-known indent agent of Mount .Eden, Auckland, was found at noon yesterday at the bottom of a lift well in Cooke’s Building in Queen street, where he occupied an office on the fifth floor. Churton’s hat and attache case were found in the automatic lift, which was on the sixth floor. How he fell into the lift well is a mystery. The lift was tested by experts, and the mechanical locking devices on the lift and at each floor were found to be in working order. CAUGHT IN SHAFTING. Severe injuries were received by W.Ewen Taylor, a labourer, of Petone, when his clothing became caught in the shafting of the machinery at Lowe’s foundry, Lower Hiitt, yesterday afternoon. Taylor’s right shoulder was dislocated, his left arm fractured, and he received abrasions to his face and body. His condition is serious, but was reported to bfe satisfactory by the hospital. BULLET WOUND IN HEAD. Eno Francis Norton, a farm worker, aged 83, died in the Ashburton Hospital as the result of a gunshot .wound. He was found early yesterday morning lying in the yard of the farm at Seafield, where he was employed, with a bullet wound in the head and a rifle beside him. Norton’s wife and two children reside at Temuka, FOUND DEAD. A Press Association message from Pahiatua states that Frank Wyeth, single, a farmer of Pongaroa, was missed from his home on Wednesday, and was found dead by a search party in a remote part of his farm. The body was lying beside a pile of wood he had been engaged in splitting. The deceased was recently an* inmate of Pongaroa Hospital. Death was considered to have taken place 24 hour* previously.