ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 7, 29 April 1914, Page 2

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

[Pan Press Association.] 1 Ashburton, April 28. The nine-months-old son of Mrs F. S. AVilcocks (a widow), residing at the residence of W. H. Price, of- Seafield road, Ashburton, met his death this morning in a peculiar manner. It appears that at ten o'clock the mother put her baby to sleep in a go-cart. She tied his clothes to the back of the perambulator with a tape, so that he could not fall out in her absence, and left him in the kitchen. She then, in company with Price, drove to Tinwald, and after calling at a house there, returned to her residence at Seafield road, having been absent about an hour. In the kitchen she saw the child suspended between the go-cart and the floor by the tape. She immediately got him in her arms and drove to Ashburton, and consulted a doctor, who pronounced life to be extinct. If seems that the baby struggled out of the perambulator ami fell over the side, and was held in such a position, by the tape as to cause death. The inquest was adjourned till Friday to allow of a post mortem examination being made. Christchurch April 28.. The coach from Waiau to Kaikoura capsized in the Lottery River this morning and was .swept down the stream. No passengers were injured, but they had a narrow escape. Six mail bags are missing. Wellington, April 28. Clifford Blake, aged fifteen, was caught in a goods lift at Cooper's seedsmen's warehouse this afternoon. The Ijft was apparently started by another lad on the floor below, and Blake jumped on as the lift rose and was jammed against a brick arch,being held by the groin and' stopping the lift. The sufferer was removed to the hospital. His injuries include a broken pelvis. Michael Bowie, a earlier, aged 42, a married man. who fell from his cart on the Ith I inst. and was admitted to the hospital suffering from concussion of the brain, died to-night.