ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9108, 30 March 1908, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Per Press Association. Dunedin, March 28. At an inquest at Mosgiel to-day on the body of Thomas Arthur Bramble manager of the Bank of New Zealand at Outram, who was killed on the railway on Friday night, the evidence went to show that the deceased had apparently not noticed that the train .had arrived at Mosgiel, at which station he should have alighted, until it had got under way again for Clinton, and that he then hurriedly left the carnage in which he was sitting and jumped off the train, which had attained a good rate of speed. He fell on to the platform, and was dragged under the train, the guard’s van passing over his right leg, completely severing it. A verdict of accidental death was returned.

Invercargill, March 29. An inquest was held ou Saturday touching.the death of James Edward Fox, who died at Mabel Station. The medical evidence showed that death was due to acute septic poisoning caused by inflammation in the soft part of the nose, for which deceased had received medical treatment. The jury found a verdict to the effect that death was due to, natural causes.

Hamilton, March 3b. Frank Lewis, while intoxicated,, fell over the traffic bridge ou Saturday night and was drowned.