ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 15, 10 September 1912, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

SHUNTINGACCIDENT

(Per Press Association.) Auckland, September 9. An accident which terminated fatally occurred at the Newmarket rad.va\ station this afternoon, when Fredeticii 0. Falkner, aged 22, was killed whiisi shunting. Falkner ran in front ol a train of moving waggons, when his foot slipped and lie fell, and before he could rise the waggons ran over him. Hi was removed to the hospital, when no died half an hour later. His injuries were very severe, his right arm being practically torn from the shoul dor, his right ear being torn off, and he also received injury to the spine. The accident is particularly sad, as the young man had only been married" about a month, and this is the third death in the family within quite a

short period, his brother and sister dying a few months ago. The decease: 1 had been in the service of the Railway Department for the past fivo year, and was regarded as a very promising young officer. An inquest will be held (o-morrow.

THE CASE OF A YOUNG WOMAN

Dunedin, September 9. A young woman, evidently suffering from .severe internal pains, was found on the town belt, above the Boys' High School, this afternoon. _ She was highly nervous and hysterical. A bot tie that had once contained beef and iron tonic was beside her, and indications were that she had taken an ovordose of the contents. She was taken to the hospital and had greatly improved by to-night. Her name if ivy Brown,"and she lives in Clarendon street.

INQUEST ON "BOBBIE" SMITH FOUND DROWNED.

Christclmrch, September 9. At the inquest on Harold ("Bobbie") Smith, the medical man who ma It the post mortem examination stated that he could find no fracture of any limb nor any sign of violence. He ascribed death to drowning. Emily Smith, the boy's step-mother, said that she last saw him botwoen 4 and 5 p.m. on July 12. He was then at home in the kitchen, and witness gave him a cup of tea. His brother Era est was also at home. Witness saw nothing more of him. "Witness identified the body in the morgue by the clothes. She could not account in my way for the boy getting into tin river. Ernest Smith, eleven yean* old, a brother of deceased, slated that "Bobbie 1 " was not in the habit of going out by himself. After othei evidence the Coroner recorded a verdict of found drowned.