ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19995, 12 January 1927, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

BOY’S SKULL FRACTURED. (Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, January 11. Eric Moroney, aged four years, whose parents reside at Edendale, was knocked down by a motor car yesterday afternoon while running across the Lake road. Takapuna. The boy received a fractured skull, and his condition is regarded as serious. FATAL FALL FROM HORSE. (Special ro Daily Times.) AUCKLAND, January 11. Nelson Ross, aged 20, of Grey Lynn, who received a fracture of the skull through being thrown from a horse, died in hospital this afternoon. The accident occurred at Helensville, and deceased was admitted to the Auckland Hospital on Sunday. A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE. (Peb United Press Associatu. .) HAMILTON, January 11. Two railway surfacemen named Moyle and Stonnell were thrown from a jigger over a bridge at Morrinsville and fell 60ft on to a soft bank. They had a miraculous escape, neither being seriously hurt. A WOMAN’S DISAPPEARANCE. (Per United Press Association.) HAMILTON, January 11. At Ngaruawahia this morning a woman, accompanied by two children, one about 18 months old and the other three years old, called at a house on the river bank and asked for a drink of water. About an hour later the occupant of the house when strolling on the river bank, found the two children crying bitterly, while the woman’s hat was lying on the hank near bv. The woman was a stranger to the district. The police are dragging the river. It was subsequently ascertained that the woman’s name is Mrs Blackburn, of Auckland. She sent a lettercard saying that she would bo asleep in the deep by the time her husband received it. NATIVE BOY KILLED. (Per United Press Association.) ROTORUA, January 11. A schoolboy named Tohetohe_ Arapeta, 18 years of age, was killed by a locomotive of the Rotoiti Timber Company at 6 pm. yesterday. The boy ia said to have been riding on the engine contrary to orders, and fell off, the engine passing over Him. An inquest was held at Rotoiti this afternoon. MAORI WOMAN DROWNED. (Per United Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., January 11. While spearing for eels in a creek mar Rangiotu yesterday afternoon an elderly Maori woman named Pikihuia Tamati had a seizure, and fell face down in sis inches of water. Her 10-year-old grandson was unable to raise ner, and communicated with his mother about a mile distant, who found the woman dead. RAILWAY WORKER KILLED. (Pbb United Press Association.) NAPIER, January 1L James Holloway, a fitter in the Railway Workshops at Napier, was run down by a ballast, train in the yards this morning when walking to the workshops to begin his day’s work and killed instantly, having been badly mutilated by the plough on the undercarriage of a truck, which was in front of the engine. The deceased apparently did not see or hear the train approaching. He was a single man, with no relatives in New Zealand. COOK FATALLY BURNED. (Per United Press Association.) WAIPAWA, January H. Alice Norman, aged 25, single, a cook at the Commercial Hotel. Waipawa, received fatal injuries from bums last evening. Some fat which was on the stove caught fire, and the flames ignited her blouse. She ran screaming into the street, and before the flames could be extinguished with a rug_ she was shockingly burned. After receiving medical attention she was removed to the hospital, where she died. MOTOR CAR MISHAP. Injuries to the head and a cut on one of his legs were received by Mr T. J. Harrison, butcher, of Port early on Monday evening. A party consisting of Mr Harrison, his son (Mr T. W. Harrison), Mr F. Wav, and a little girl was travelling along the Dock road towards Carey’s Bay in a baby Austin car, when one of the back wheels collapsed. The car skidded across the road, and the occupants were thrown violently about. Mr Way received a cut on one of his legs, and Mr Harrison junior, and the girl were severely shaken. Air Harrison, senior, was attended by Dr Roy, and later returned to his home. It was fortunate that the accident occurred on a level ’stretch as had the wheel collapsed- when the car was on an incline the consequences might have been very serious. FOUND HANGING. Advice has been received from Roxburgh that John Thomas Crossan, aged 47 years, a married man with three children, was found hanging to a tree. Deceased left a letter, the contents of which indicated his intention to commit suicide.