ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 31, 5 February 1913, Page 8

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

! FATAL STONE-THROWING. (Per Press Association.) Dunedin, February 4. A stone-throwing episode at Ravensbourne had a sad sequel at the hospital last night, when a boy named Cecil Robert'Randall, 11 years of age, died from hemorrhage of the brain. While playing with other boys on Sunday be was struck on the head by a stone thrown by a companion. Yesterday morning he became unconscious, and an operation was immediately necessary, owing to hemorrhage. The operation was performed at the hospital last night, and at first he appeared to have a chance of recovery, However, he took a turn for the worse and died during the night.

KILLED BY AN ENGINE. Dunedin, February 4. The inquest on the body of March Ninian Johnson, surfaceman, who was fatally injured through being dragged by a shunting engine on Saturday, was held to-day. Evidence showed that deceased must have made a mistake as to the shunt that was in progress, thinking the engine would take a different line from the one ho was working on. The Coroner, Mr Graham, said that there seemed to be no evidence of negligence. The only mysterious point was how the driver did not see the man, and that was explained by the fact that deceased was close enough to the engine to make it possible for him to be overlooked. He would find that death was due to injuries caused by being accidentally run over by an engine. FATAL FALL FROM A BRIDGE. Auckland, February 4. Samuel Bowden, fifty years old, was killed at Huntly to-day. Deceased was employed on the erection of a bridge over the Waikato, and fell from a piledriving machine, a distance of forty feet, into the river, striking his head on a punt in falling.. The body was not recovered for over an hour. Bowden’s skull was badly fractured, and his right wrist broken. It is most probable that ho was dead before reaching the water, . DROWNED IN THE HARBOUR. Dunedin, February 4. A body found in the harbour this morning has been identified as that of Andrew Ferens, apparently about 50 years of age. He was a stranger here. His pockets contained , £25, the return half of a second-class railway ticket from Queenstown yia Invercargill, and a labour agency "ticket giving tbe name of a Queenstown station. On Saturday Ferens engaged a room at the Glasgow restaurant for that night and Sunday night but ho did not use it on Sunday. DEATH FR9M SYNCOPE!' 1 Ashburton, February ‘4. At the inquest touching the death of Richard Marshall a verdict was returned that death was due to syncope, accelerated by heart failure.