ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19997, 14 January 1927, Page 10

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

A FATAL FALL. (Special to Daily Times.) AUCKLAND, January 13. At the inquest concerning the death of Nelson Herbert Ross, aged 20. who was ■ thrown from a horse at Helensville last . Sunday, evidence was given that the owner of the horse tried to dissuade deceased I from riding it. | Frederick James Carter, electrical en--1 gineer, said Ross asked to be allowed to i ride his horse, but witness refused, as I his horse was a spirited animal, and Ross was not a good horseman. Later he saw I Ross jump on the horse and gallop down i the road. ’ Vhen going over a bridge about a chain from the house the horse fell, with the result that Ross was thrown heavily. Witness ran to the spot, and found deceased unconscious. The only apparent injury was a cut on the back of the left hand. ' , „ , The corner, Mr F. K. Hunt, adjourned the inquiry in order to have medical testimony as to the cause of death. BODY FOUND IN RIVER. (Per United Press Association.) HAMILTON, January 13. The body of Mrs Myrtle Blackburn, a resident of St. Helier’s Bay, Auckland, who disappeared from the bank of the Waipa River at oNgaruawahia on Monday evening last, leaving her two young chili dren on the bank, was found this morning | close to the opposite side of the river from which the woman entered. MAN’S FOOT CUT OFF. (Special to jaily Times.) WELLINGTON, January 13. Harry Patteison, a married man, had his foot taken off by a pug machine at the Gasco Brick Company’s works, Miramar, this morning. • He was admitted to the hospital, hut succumbed to his injuries in the afternoon. An inquest will be held. WATERSIDE WORKER INJURED. (Special to Dai- y Times.) WELLINGTON, January 13. Struck on the head by a block falling from one of the Harbour Boards cranes while working on the wharf, Joseph Henry Moore, a single man, living at Kilbirnie, was admitted to the hospital to-day with injuries to the head. FATAL KICK BY HORSE. INQUEST ADJOURNED. The Coroner (Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M.) held an inquiry at the court house yesterday into the circumstances of the death of Arthur Milne, of Heriot, sheep farmer, who had died at a private hospital in Dunedin that morning. Ethel Lithgow Milne, wife of the deceased said her husband was the lessee of Wilden Downs run, Heriot. He was 30 years of age. On Christmas Day the deceased left the homestead at the shearing shed for the mam homestead, which was about two miles away, to get some articles for the shearing shed. He was riding his hack. He was a very good horseman, having been brought up amongst horses. Deceased intended to harness his horse to a trap at the homestead and onng the articles back. On arrival at he mam homestead he was unsaddling his. and apparently when he was about to und the crupper the horse backed and lashed out, deceased receiving the full force of the blow on the right side of his face, (us nose being broken and his jaw fracture , and ho also received other injuries, fl e hoise was shod. The ■deceased who v-as bv himself, managed to get up and go into the house, and after washing himself he setoff on foot to the nearest neighhour’s (Mr Mann’s), place, about half a m°le away- and arrived there about o'clock. They gave him first aid, and obtained a car and took him to Dr J son at Heriot. The deceased asked Mrs K„* to go •% ,^V*Z"o‘ootd s? a ’Sr.ar <£■' VT„5Ths MSSSKHakt give evidence. YOUNG WOMAN’S DEATH. CAUSE UNKNOWN. J rM & viUo's S hoLl 9 Durtao, . •fi* l Sh “°S,d‘SS ficate as to ge «e g _ ppst ; idttefication being taken. We are informed that an mitigation j and party, of Port Chalmers; suffered ?n to , tmrncd ovcf twice before a 'wheel collapsed.