ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24399, 10 September 1940, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

ELDERLY MAN'S DEATH Thomas Patton. a widower, aged 78, collapsed and died -at the Salvation Army Shelter in Maclaggan street late yesterday afternoon. Death was apparently due to heart failure, and an inquest will not be necessary. FRACTURED ARM A compound fracture of the right arm was suffered bv Mrs Jane McLean, an elderly visitor to Dunedin, who was staying with the sub-matron at the Central Police Station, when she slipped and fell on the station steps yesterday. She was admitted to Hospital at 1.45 D.m. SCHOOLBOY INJURED Owen O'Brien, a young boy, living at 12 Harbour terrace, Ravensbourne, was admitted to Hospital yesterday afternoon suffering from a fractured leg received while he was playing a*, school. SWEPT FROM HORSE YOUNG SHEPHERD DROWNED (Peb United press Association) HASTINGS, Sept. 9. Douglas McKeown, single, aged 22, a shepherd, was swept from his horse and drowned in attempting to ford a flooded creek in the Waipawa district on Sunday. His horse was found that afternoon, with the saddle wei and the saddlebags full of water. A search was begun immediately by the police and a party of farmers, and the body was found this afternoon in a deep hole about half a mile below the crossing place. The creek is one which is almost dry in summer time and floods considerably in winter. After torrential rain during the week-end in Hawke's Bay it rose 15 feet. McKeown s parents reside at Mataura.

THREE PEOPLE INJURED CAR CRASHES INTO CULVERT (Per United. Press Association) HASTINGS, Sept. 9. When the five-seater car in which they were travelling left the Main road at Pakipaki and crashed into a concrete culvert the occupants—two young women and a man—were injured. The victims were: Frank O'Rourke, single, aged A of /To Kura, near Otane, severe head injuries, condition fairly serious. Mary Jane Richardson, married, aged 23, of Racecourse road, Waipukurau, facial cuts and shock. . Miriam Christensen, single, aged 19, of Takapau road, Waipukurau, facial cuts and shock. Neither of the women vvas seriously hurt. The injured persons were taken to the Napier Hospital by ambulance. FATAL BURNS YOUNG WOMAN'S DEATH (Per United Press Association) MASTERTON, Sept. 9. Jean Elder McMaster. aged 26, the only daughter of Mr and Mrs R. W. McMaster. of Master.on. whose frock caught alight through contact with an electric heater prior to her going to a dance on Wednesday night, died yesterday in the hospital.