ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 22451, 23 September 1936, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

STRUCK BY TRAIN. Struck by a train, Mark Tully, a’ farm labourer and contractor, single, aged 60, was killed at Hunterville yesterday afternoon at a crossing close to the town. His body was terribly mutilated. He had left his horse in the saleyardß and was walking from there towards the town when _ he stepped in front of an oncoming mixed train from Marton. At the place where the accident occurred there is a straight track for several hundred yards, and it is difficult to understand how Tully failed to see or hear the train. FOUND DEAD IN BED. An old-age pensioner, Joseph Hepworth Bell, aged 72, was found dead ip his bach at Palmerston North. A man occupying another bach on the same property, not having seen Bell since Sunday, found the door of the bach locked, but pushed up a window to discover Bell in bed dead. _ The deceased had been under medical treatment. INQUEST ADJOURNED. An inquest was held at the Hospital this morning by the coroner JMr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M.) touching the death of Isabella Mackie Booth, a married woman, 31 years of age, who died in the Public Hospital yesterday. Chief-detective Young represented the police. Evidence of identification was given by the husband of deceased, George Alexander Booth, a carpenter, residing at 49 Kaikorai Valley road. He stated that he was 34 years of age, and that he had three children. His wife was admitted to the Hospital on September 17. The inquest was then adjourned sine die. CHILD FATALLY INJURED. At the inquest at Lower Hutt today on Constance Fay Doran, the coroner (Mr Gilbertson, S.M.) found that the girl died as the result of severe injuries to the brain sustained by colliding with a motor lorry driven by Thomas E. Pelham on September 14. Wellington Press Association.