ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Hokitika Guardian, 22 December 1930, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

GIRL AND MAN.

FALL FROM CAR

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WELLINGTON, December 21

This morning soon after midnight, a young woman was killed outright and a man was very seriously injured through, falling from a moving car near Lower Hutt. The girl killed was Ivy Byron, aged 18, .who lived at 152 Tinakori Road, Wellington. The man injured was Clnuidos Richmond Batkin, aged 42, who was reported very low at 6 p.m. to-day, Both the dead girl and her companion were sitting apparently on the turned down hood of the car which is a three seater, being perched up against the driver and two other people' alongside him. The driver, was Charles Batkin of Clareville, Masterton, brother of the man injured. He noticed suddenly that the man and woman behind were no longer with them. Hie car was stopped, a inf they retraced their path some little distance, coming eventually upon the two bodies lying on the road. The accident occurred near Nainai Road. Whether the two people fell through the swerve or a bump , : S the road, or from an other cause, has not yet been determined. WELLINGTON, December 22

Chandos Richmond Batkin, aged 42, of Masterton, who was injured through falling from a moving motor car near Lower Hutt on Saturday night, died from his injuries in the Wellington Hospital last night.

HAIRDRESSER’S SUTCTDE

CHRISTCHURCH, December 21

Percy Chiverton, aged 51, a hairdresser of Christchurch was found dead this morning, at Waverley Private Hotel, where he had been hoarding. Evidence given at the inquest held later in the day before AW Young, S.Af., showed that during the night he had tied a strap around his neck and Jon to the bed post and had strangled himself. He had been in New Zealand l 5 months and he had worked steadily until a fortnight ago, when he had lost his position. Ho was to appear before the Alagistrate’s Court to-mor-row on a maintenance charge. The Coroner’s verdict was that Chiverton committed suicide by strangulation.

CAR DROPS 30 FEET. OAAIARU, December 21

The dead body of William Kireau Dooley, aged 58. was found at the foot of a cliff on the foreshore at seven this morning., Apparently a car which the deceased was driving crashed over a thirty foot drop late last night. Dooley lived two streets further on from where the accident occurred, arid ,- t is thought he probably mistook the turning. He leaves a wife and a grown up family.

N.S.4V. DOMESTIC TRAGEDY. SYDNEY. Deeomber 21. Charles Wilson, aged 53. visited, at Qtieanbevan, the! home of his wife, from whom he was separated and killed her with a shotgun. Siv children are left, three of them very young.