ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8360, 21 February 1913, Page 10

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Press Association. WANGANUI, February 20. A man named Cook stistained slight concussion, and had a shoulder dislocated through being thrown off a drag as the result of a collision with a tramcar this morning. AUCKLAND, February 20. A girl aged sixteen died in the hospital this morning. This is the case in respect to which a widow named Sarah Eliza Skellerh has been committed for trial on a charge that she performed an illegal operation. John liege, a cook on the schooner Cleo, fell down the steps at the wharf when going aboard the vessel and sustained a broken leg and injuries to his head resulting in concussion of the brain. He was- taken to the hospital, whore he died this afternoon. PALMERSTON, February 20. An inquest on Thomas Rogers, expressman, who had his neck broken through a fall from an express on the river-bank yesterday, was held to-day. Just previous to the accident deceased had had an altercation with the owner of the property on which he was driving as to his right to be there. It was after he left the owner of the property, however, that by some means ho fell from the express. The jury returned' a verdict of accidental death, no blame being attachable to anyone. Jack Bansby, married, twenty-nine years of age, fell off a scaffold whilst painting a building in the city yesterday. He was precipitated a distance of about'forty feet, but fortunately ho received only a shaking, no bones being broken. Bansby ; who resides in Hugh street, off Adelaide road, was taken to the hospital. A married man, William Weston, thirty-one years old, was admitted to the hospital yesterday with his left wrist and left leg broken. The accident occurred at Upper Hutt, but the hospital authorities do not know how it occurred. A Harbour Board labourer, W. Elliott, while _ working at a hydraulic crane alongside the Arawa last night, had one of his thumbs badly smashed in a block of. the crane. He received medical attendance, and proceeded to his home.