ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 54, 6 March 1915, Page 2

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

MOTOR CAR ACCIDENTS

Per Press Association

Palmerston North, March •>

A motor car, containing three i«o----plo, was proceeding down a lull near Palmerston, when a oyre burst, and the car capsized. A la.ly passenger named Airs Wentworth, of Wellington, sustained a severe leg wound. !he occupants of a passing ear rendered tirstaid, and carried the passengers to L'uton station, where they left lor Wellington. The car fired, and was left on the road.

WOMAN DIED UNDER ARREST.

Wellington, March 5

A woman named Minnie McNeill, residing in Egmont Street, was arrested last night on a charge of drunkenness. She appeared to he quite well during the night, but this morning she became unwell, and was seized with a fit n; the cells. She received attention, and it was discovered that she had swallowed her false teeth. She was removed *o the hospital, where an operation was performed to remove the teeth. While under the anaesthetic the patient collapsed, and died shortly after midday.

killed on the railway. Auckland, March o. A man named Patrick Latimore, -10 years of age, was working on the railway near Parnell tunnel, when ho was knocked down by the incoming Rotorua express, and fatally injured. He died almost immediately, Auckland, March (5. The labourer killed in the I'ameU tunnel was Patrick Mattenmore, aged .18, not Latimore.