CHRISTMAS ACCIDENTS.

Otaki Mail, Volume XXIII, 29 December 1920, Page 3

CHRISTMAS ACCIDENTS.

-.-• J TWO SUDDEN DEATHS. !Chris}cmuxn, December 21. Le crop of Christmas accidents and falitics arc unusually heavy. On ristmas cvc Sydney Scott, aged 37, pired suddenly in a shop. )n Christmas Day Reuben Henry, of, rcrcargill, who was visiting Christj,ch with his wife, died suddenly at boardinghousc. Victor Watson, a young man, was jutted to hospital suffering from nshot wounds. He was cleaning a „ when it exploded, the charges enI ring his abdomen. George Linton was riding a motortie when it collided with a motorHe was admitted to hospital with t 'oken ankle. J Sre were several minor accidents. I; LITTLE GIRL'S DEATH. Hastings, December 24. The eleven months daughter of ekibald Hinds died yesterday niters ,on shortly after swallowing tat)-, ids accidentally dropped in the room her aunt who was using them for tiritis. .Medical aid was available ion after, but the child collapsed. At [B inquest a verdict was returned of j 'cidental death by strychnine poison- J Locking death from scalds, j Wellington, December 27. A little girl named Muriel Grant, jed seven years, fell info a copper oi oiling water at ».lohnsonville last iafct. She was admitted to the hos- j ital severeiv scalded aud suffering | rom shock, and died' at an early hour ills morning. •• j 'ALL UNDER DISCING MACHINE. ': An ivnfortunate accident happened o C. Hastings on Thursday morning Lhen he was discing on Mr A. L. Elmslio's farm at Waverley. WhtlstJ) ontrolling a rather troublesome horse ilr Hastings was thTOwn from his seat in front' of the discs, the machine passing completely over him. Fortunately he was lying partly on his side, with the result that only his left arm received the most weight. The muscles of the arm were severed, necessitat- | ing fourteen stitches to hold them to- | gether. I FATAL TALL FROM TRAIN, j Shortly after the Thames train left J MorrinsviUe on Thursday afternoon, a j married man named Alfred William Feist, aged 39, of Lower Hutt, who I on his way to Te Aroha with his wife, j mother, and married sister, jumped or fell through the carriage window, and alighted on his head. The train was stopped, and Feist, on being picked j up, was found to be suffering from j severe injuries. He was conveyed back to Mo'rrinsville, whore he died on arrival, his neck being found to be I brokem Deceased had for some time | suffered from nervous trouble. |