ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 22465, 9 October 1936, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

SKID ON TRAM LINES. Cecil Murray, 18 years of age, who was admitted to .the Dunedin Hospital yesterday suffering from concussion and abrasions to the face, received the injuries when the cycle he was nding skidded on the tram lines at the corner of Ross street. FRACTURED LEG. While playing football on the North Ground, Ernest Stevens, aged 15. residing at 14 St. David street, suffered a fractured left leg, and was admitted to the Hospital at 8.20 p.m. yesterday. THE LIFT WELL FATALITY. “ That the lift was defective on the dav of the accident I have no doubt,” said Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., coroner, in returning a verdict of accidental death at the inquest into the death of Harold Francis Churton, aged 63, of Mount Eden, whose body was found at the bottom of a lift well in Cooke’s Buildings, Queen street, Auckland, on September 17. Much evidence was given concerning the operation of the automatic lift in the building, but the coroner said that the explanations of witnesses did not satisfy him. The police evidence was that the bloodstains and other marks in the lift well were consistent with the falling of a body, which must have dropped from above the third floor. FATAL GELIGNITE EXPLOSION. At the adjourned inquest on the body of Robert Thompson Gallon a verdict was returned that _ the deceased was killed by an explosion of gelignite on September 28 at the mouth of No. 10 tunnel in Humphrey’s race works (Hokitika), apparently accidentally,, but the actual cause of the explosion had not been disclosed.

INQUEST ON ACCOUNTANT. A Stratford message states thati “suicide while mentally depressed’* was the verdict at the inquest this morning into the death of William Power, accountant, who was found dead in his office on Monday with a rifle between his knees. FARM HAND DROWNED. The body of a young Hurford Road farmhand, Noel George Cottier, aged about 23 rears, was found floating iu the sea off the municipal baths at New Plymouth yesterday afternoon. it appeared that the body had not been in the water very long. Cottier was fully dressed except for boots and coat, and these later were found by the police below the Belt Road Camp site. Oottie, who was employed as » farm hand by Mr J. H. Thomas, Hurford Road, told his employer on Wed. nesday that he was going for a walk. He did not return to the farm that night, and he was then reported to the police as missing.—Press Associaw tion.