ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 78, 25 November 1912, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

THE MOTOR-CAR FATALITY

(Per Press Association.) Christchurch, November 24,

An inquest on the body c,f Mr. James Henderson, of Dunsandol, who died at the Christchurch Hospital yesterday as the result of injuries sustained in a . motor-car accident at Birdling’s Flat on Tuesday night, was held to-day. Hugh Cleaver Jamieson, a. builcW,' said that deceased left in his car for his home at Dunsandel about half an hour before witness. When they arrived at the cutting loading to' Birdling’s Flat they found that the car which had been driven by deceased had boon capsized, and bad pinned the deceased underneath. The deceased complained of pains in his chest. So far as witness could see, it was a pure accident, owing to the small sningle on the road, and was probably due to an error of judgment. Deceased was an experienced driver. The Coroner returned a verdict that deceased died from injuries accidentally received in the capsizing of his motor-car on the Little River Road.

INQUEST ON FATHER VENNING. Wellington, November 24. At the inquest on the body of the late Father Venning, who met with a fatal accident on Thursday night, evidence was given that deceased was found at the entrance to Guilford Terrace, close to the Basilica, with one foot entangled in his motor cycle. He had evidently tried to negotiate the corner, and run into a post. His skull was fractured and the brain injured, and he was also suffering from shock. A verdict of accidental death was returned.

FATAL FALL FROM A DISC,

Invercargill, November 24. A farmer named William Ballantyno Priuder, aged 32, of Wairio, was accidentally killed on Saturday evening. Ho was discing a ploughed held, and in descending into a hollow, was apparently thrown from his seat in front of the disc, which came to a stop on his shoulders. The accident was not witnessed by anyone, and deceased was probably two hours under the heavy machine before being discovered. Life was then extinct.

A DROWNING FATALITY. Invercargill, November 21. A drowning accident happened at Otautau on Saturday ,by wnich John Garrick, ono of the best known farmers in Southland, mot his death. It appears that Garrick, along with an employee, was hand-straining barbed wire on tne edge of a lagoon, when the wire broke and ho was precipitated into about nine feet of water. The employee made strenuous endeavours to rescue tne drowning man, but without avail. He called for assistance, and Mrs. Garrick, Mr. M. O’Brien, and others came on the scene, but it was fully fifteen minutes after the accident before the body was recovered. A medical man was on the scene promptly and restorative measures wore applied without avail.

FALL FROM A PERAMBULATOR Wanganui, November 24. A nine months’ old infant named Daphne Death fell out of a perambulator at Castlecliff on Saturday, and was strangled. A BUSH-FELLING FATALITY. Wanganui, November 24. While felling bush on his family’s property at Aim Aim on Saturday, James John Brownlie, aged twenty years, was struck by a tree, and died when being carried to Kai Iwi. Mr. James Henderson, of Dunsandel (Canterbury), who was injured in a motor-car accident on Wednesday, when returning from Banks Peninsula Show, at Little River, difed at the Hospital on Friday night. Deceased was a prominent fanner, vice-presi-dent of the Canterbury A. and P. Association, and a member of the County and Hospital Boards. FOUND DEAD IN BUNK. Dargaville, November 25. A bush cook named Alexander Nor ton, aged C2, and formerly a sailor, stayed on Saturday night in I the carpenter’s cabin aboard the barquentine Titawa. A convivial evening had been spent, and yesterday morning Norton was found dead in the carpenter’s berth in which the carpenter, W. W. Gloak, was also lying, and had evidently overlain the other. At the inquest a verdict was returned that the deceased had been accidentally overlain and suffocated while in an intoxicated condition.

A CHILD’S SAD END. A sad fatality occurred at the Warea factory about 5 p.m. on Saturday afternoon as a result of which the three-year-old daughter ol Mr Cochrane, factory manager, lost her life. By some means the little one got entangled in the shaft of the refrigerating machinery, and was dashed against a lever. The humping drew the factory hands’ attention and the machinery was at once stopped, and the child released. Dr. Home was at once telephoned for, hut the injured girl died shortly after his arrival, about an hour after the accident." An inquest is being held to-day, states the News.