ACCIDENTS AND FATILITIES

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8745, 20 February 1907, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATILITIES

Per Press Association. Christchurch, February 19. An inquest concerning tho death o£ Muriel Vera Elizabeth Marks, a girl of 14, who died as the result of injuries sustained in a moving tramcar on the Papanui Koad yesterday afternoon, was held to-day. Evidence was given that the child had intended to got out at the St. Albans Lane stopping place, but tho car stopped at a loop a short distance from the lane to allow a down car to pass and did not stop again at tho lane, passengers for that stopping place having alighted at the loop. When the car •reached tho lane tho-girl jumped off and struck her head violently against one of the poles and sustained concussion of the brain from which she died twenty minutes after.

George Graylan Millar, conductor of tho car, said he know nothing of the accident until one of the inspectors questioned him about it an hour and a half afterwards. Cara did not stop at the lane if they stopped at the loop. Tho jury returned a verdict of accidental death, and recommended that a guard should bo placed along tho whole length of the oars, including tho rear seats, such as that occupied by the deceased just prior to her death ; also that all cars should stop at the St. Alban’s Lane stopping place, Gisborne, February 19. In connection with tho death of Charles Harwood, resulting from injuries at a sawmill at Te Araroa, tho verdict was that death was accidental, no blame being attachable to anyone, excepting deceased himself, for working at the particular saw without the knowledge of his companions, especially after ho had been cautioned. Ashburton, February 19. A man, name unknown, was found to-day in sakftia sale yards shot through the head with a rifle. The bodybad evidently lain for some time, being much decomposed and unrecognisable. Christchurch, February 19. A young man named lloswear has been drowned in a lake at Lockwood.

Ivy Warner, the young woman who was taken to the hospital from Southbndgo on Sunday night suffering from a severe wound in the throat, self inflicted, still lies in a dangerous condition. A three-year-old child named Clarice Baxter was accidentally drowned at Southbridge to-day.