ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 76, 4 August 1913, Page 8

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

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Napier, August 3

A horse harnessed to a trap containing Mr Haines, his wife and two children, shied at' some electric cable reels this morning and bolted. The trap struck a telegraph post, and the occupants were thrown out and one, a child aged three, was very seriously injured. MISSING STATIONMASTER. Westport, August 3. About one hundred people scoured the district to-day in search of the missing Granity stationmaster, Mr Croft, but without avail, not the slightest trace of the man being found. SHUNTER SERIOUSLY INJURED. Auckland, August 2. A shunter named Walter Lawrence met with a serious accident in the Auckland yard yesterday afternoon, and as the result of injuries sustained by being thrown under a lino of moving waggons, ho lias lost his right arm, tho limb being amputated from just below tho shoulder. SURF BOAT FATALITY. Napier, August 3. A seaman named William Kittelson, aged 2b, mot his death on Saturday afternoon whilst engaged in working cargo from tho steifmcr Ahnriri in a surf boat at Mohaka. Two others I were with him in tho boat, which was overturned by a heavy sea. Kittelson was badly knocked about, and died about an hour after the accident before a doctor could arrive from Wairoa. The deceased, who was a single man and a na-tivo of Norway, was not known to have any relatives in the district.

A! EXT A L H( )S i MTA L FATA L i TV. Auckland, August 3. Tho death occurred at Auckland Mental Hospital on Thursday afternoon, of a patient, a. young woman, who had been found lying seriously injured on the pavement, beneath the window of one of the upstairs rooms at the Wolfe Home portion of the institution on Tuesday morning. The woman, who had been assisting to clear away tho breakfast dishes in the nurses’ quarters, was missed when one of tho nurses conducted tho patients back to their own part of the building. A search was made, and tho missing patient was found as described, with both arms broken at the wrists, her skull fractured, and she was suffering from other injuries. The woman lived but was unconscious for two days before she died. At tho inquest, after ■ evidence by tho medical superintendent, the jury returned a verdict that deceased had died as the result of injuries received from throwing herself out of an upstairs window ,at tho hospital, there being no blame attachable to any one.