ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9135, 2 May 1908, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Per Press Association.

Wellington. May 1, At an inquest on the body of Mr T. Langton Joll, of Okaiawa, Taranaki, who died to-day from injuries sustained by a fall from an electric tram car on Easter Monday, the medical evidence showed that death was the result of meningitis, following on a fracture of the skull. Philip Myers, who knew the deceased personally, and was travelling with him on the car, said Joll jumped out as the car neared Woodward street in the direction opposite to which the car was going. He fell heavily on his bead. The car had not stopped, and was going at from five to six miles an hour. Witness did not think Joll rang the ball. He simply got up and walked off the car as if it were stationary. Witness saw nothing that would indicate carelessness on the part of the motorman or conductor of the car. Joll was probably thinking of something else and <just walked out of the car. After hearing further evidence, the jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical testimony, and found no blame attachable to anybody. Auckland, May 1.

A middle-aged woman named Mrs P. Allen, a resident of Epsom, alighted from a swiftly moving tramcar in the Manakan Road today, and in falling sustained a severe injury to her head. She [.was removed to the hospital. Her husband works at Cashmere’s bush, Katikati, and in company with her three small children she was to Have left Auckland to-morrow to join him. Her condition is serious. Dunedin, May 1. News has been received of the sudden death of Mrs Cornish, wife of the licensee of the Stirling Hotel, this afternoon. Auckland, May 2. George F. Austin, aged 52, a Pokeno settler, was found dead in a paddock. The indications point to apoplexy. Gisborne, May 2. An elderly man named Thompson narrowly escaped death by burning at Te Karaka. Their residence was discovered to be on fire by Constable Doyle and two neighbours, who rushed in and brought out Heni Thompson, who is blind, and her husband, who was found lying on his back on the floor beside the bed almost suffocated by smoke and flames. Lyttelton, May 2. This morning Martin Andrew Bergmann, stevedore, about 60 years of age, fell 40 feet down the bold of the lonic at Lyttelton wharf and fractured the base of his skull, both thighs and his right leg. No hope of his recovery is entertained. No one saw the accident, but he is supposed to have been struck by a sling and knocked iuto the bold. died at 12.45 p.m.