ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19996, 13 January 1927, Page 10

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

YOUNG MAN FOUND UNCONSCIOUS. (Peb United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, January 12. Lon Barnard, aged 27, believed to be from Island Bay, Wellington, was found on the Milford beach at 7 o’clock this morning in an unconscious condition. Two doctors failed to bring him round, and he was admitted to the Auckland Hospital at 11 o’clock. He was still unconscious at 1 o’clock this afternoon. The man shows symptoms of drug poisoning. DEATH FROM FRACTURED SKULL. (Per United Press Association.) STRATFORD, January 12. Norman Francis Dixon, single, 23 years of age, a farm hand, was yesterdayas a result of queer behaviour, certified insane and put in a police station cell for removal to a mental hospital. He was in good spirits when visited at 7.30 a.m., but at 8 o’clock he was found dead, appearances being that he had fractured his skull with a sanitary pan. At the inquest a verdict was returned that death was duo to a fractured skull self-inflicted, no blame being attachable to anyone.

CHILD’S ARM CRUSHED. (Peb United Pbess Association.) PAHIATUA, January 12. A distressing accident occurred at Hukanui when Beryl Mabey, aged three and a-half years, daughter of Mr R. Mabey, had her arm crushed by a motor lurry. The father was manceuvnng the lorry at the Hukanui station yard when he heard a cry. and, jumping clown, found the lear wheel lying over the child’s arm. Tie moved the lorry up a pace, buit it was found that the child’s arm had been crushed and mangled, and it had to bo amputated.