DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 April 1928, Page 1

DOMINION NEWS.

(By Telegraph—P? r Press Association.)

ACCIDENT ON RAILWAY LINE

INVERCARGILL. April 29.

An inquest was held on Saturday touching the death of Frederick Ross, railway suifateman, who died after admission to Southland Hospital on April 24. from Mm 'ton Mains, where lie was involved in an accident in which a ra.lway jigger was wrecked hy the engine of a train en route from Edendalc to Invercargill, The medical evidence showed that deceased had an extensive fracture at the base ol the skull. In his evidence. James Stanton, driver of the train, said the train was running thirty minutes late when it came into Morton Main, and the deceased might have thought it had already passed. It was quite possible that deceased was moving the trolley from the main line on to the parking rails when it was struck. The Coroner returned a verdict that deceased died from injuries received at Morton Mains railway station through a trolley he was removing from the line on to the parking line being struck by a passing train.

CHILD’S DEATH FROM SCALDING

INVERCARGILL, April 29

At a cornnial enquiry held on Saturday concerning the death of June Faulkner, ail eigliteen-inonths-old infant, who died on April 21 at tile Southland Hospital, nearly a mouth after being admitted from Tnatapero, where she was badly scalded when a kettle of boiling water overturned, the Coroner returned a verdict that death was due to shock, tli? 1 result of scalds

UNEMPLOYMENT. DUNEDIN, April 28. Two interesting statements made hy a local Labour Bureau proprietor are that there is a large number of “natural holioe.s” knocking about town who don’t seek work ill the country, and that the girls sent out from Home for domestic service wore entering factories instead. Altogether, he considered the unemployment situation was not nearly so had as it was painted.

BORSTAL ESCAPEE RECAPTURED

INVERCARGILL, April 29. During his three days of freedom

Thomas George Flanagan, the Borstal escapee, who broke away from custody at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, and disappeared into the hush at Otatara, did not succeed in getting clear of a vigibtntly-gunrded area encircling Invercargill, and was recaptured near Mill Road Railway Sation at about nine' o'clock on Saturday morning. On Friday evening the authorities were practically at a dead end, having followed up several clues without effecting his capture, though all the means of egress Irom the restricted area were strictly watched. Nothing of value was found in his clothing, but before returning to the institution. Flanagan made a .statement that he had secreted some stolen properly at Clifton. On proceeding to this spot, officers found a single-bar-relled shot gun with the stock damaged. It was thought that while he was at largo, Flanagan had entered several houses, for he had obtained both food and dollies.

‘WO MOTORISTS BADLY (HURT

TATTIAPK, April 28. At an early hour this morning, a car containing two young men. )\ alter Warren and Robert Boyd, ran over a -hank on the road at Bennett's Siding, north of Taihape. Ihe car skidded on shingle. Boyd was pinned beneath the car. Warren sustained a broken jaw and nose and bad one eye gouged out. He struggled In the farmhouse of ('. 11. Baker for assistance. Both men were conveyed to the hospital by Doctor Hay. Warren’s condition is serious. Boyd lias injuries to the back. The car tell about thirty feet.