MYSTERIOUS ACCIDENT.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 161, 13 January 1914, Page 2

MYSTERIOUS ACCIDENT.

Doctor Found in Street. With Fractured Skull. AUCKLAND. Saturday. Dr F. w. Kin?, a well known Auckland practitioner, was the victim of a mysterious and very severe accident liihl evening. About 8 o'cljclc the motorman of a tram car descending Wellesley street aoticed the body cf a man lying near the other set of rails, and stopped his car to investigate. Major I'luggc and a member of the New Zealand Medical Corps, who were the first to render assistance, found that the man was Dr Klnjr, who was insensible and bleeding profusely from Liu- right ear. There wore no marks of violence on the head. The police having been summoned, Dr King was taken on a stretcher to bin home, in Symonda street, where Dr W. H. I'arkes pronounced his case to be one of severe fracture of the base ot the skull, and ordered him to be removed to tho Mount Pleasant hospital. Thia N afternoon Dr King was still in an unconscious condition, and hia case was considered very critical. How the accident occurred is not known, but it has been suggested that Dr King may have fallen from a tram car. No one, however, appears to have seen any such occurrence. IDr King is n brother ul Mr King (chemist) and Mr A. King (stationer) of Waiuku. The former proceeded to Auckland on Saturday.]