Accidents and Fatalities

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 109, 7 March 1891, Page 2

Accidents and Fatalities

— : O (PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION 1 .) In VEBCABGiLii, March 5. A boy named Bartlett, four years of age, has : died in a somewhat singular manner. He was standing on a fence waving his hands at a passing train when he was seen to fall. His mother running tip, fotfnd the boy dead. At the inquest on the child, ■ Dr- Young deposed as the result of the post mortem, that the organs were all perfectly healthy, and that the only cause he could assign for sudden death waff paralysis of the heart from . fright. It is supposed that he had slipped from the top of the fence post. Auckland, March 5. A man' named Charles Griffin, living at St Albert, was leading a horse, when the animal plunged and threw him to theground. Griffin received concussion of the brain from which he died in 'a few hours. Griffin is ah old settler. March 6. A young woman named Emma Lilian Whittingham, about 21 ye ir 3 of age, died yesterday at Ponsonby from the effects of phosphorous poisoning. She was found to be dangerously ill on Wednesday night, and became unconscious until Thursday morning. In the afternoon, though she' appeared -to ■be slightly wandering in mind', she admitted that she had eaten about forty matches, and she died shortly afterwards. The reason for suicide on her part cannot be imagined as she was generally cheerful. Deceased was a domestic servant, Dunedin, March 6. L. Wylie, an .engine-- dnrer on the northern line, met with a painful accident yesterday. He was on th? egine of the . Pal nierston down train, when a rush of steam occurred, scalding him about, the eyes. One eye had to be removed.