ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 4 September 1907, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Per Press Association. Wellington, Last night. At the inquest on the body of William Charles Whiteford, who fell dead at Kilbirnie while working with others on telegraph line work, the medical evidence showed that death was due, to* heart disease The jury returned a verdict accordingly. Wellington, Tuesday.

Edward Martin, contractor at Ohakune, on the Main Trunk Line, died suddenly at Lower Hutt this morning. Blenheim, Tuesday.

A married man named Frank Lefroy, a new arrival from Doylcsford, Victoria, waß killed at Batty's farm, Springlauds, yesterday. He was employed handing wool to the cutting machine. It is supposed that lie overbalanced and struck his head against the travelling wheel. The machinery was not in motion at .the time, and there is no positive evidence of what happened. He was seen to fall, and was picked up dead with his hoad smashed. He leaves a widow and several small children.

Blenheim,! Last Night. At the inquest on Frank Lefroy La wry, killed whilst working on a traction engine on Monday, a verdict was returned that deceased met his death whilo putting the belt on the driving wheel. There was no evidence to show that anyone was to blame. Auckland, Tuesday. William McGregor, an apprentice cmployed by W. E. Hutchison, when working a circular-saw was struck in the abdomen by a piece of wood thrown off by the saw. He died in the Hospital. The evidence taken at the inquest today showed that death was caused by the rupture of a small intestine.

Ohristchurch, Tuesday. ! ,xA. tWO ' year " old B> rl ' Agnes 3 Florence Webb, was accidentally killed by a fall of sand in a pit at the Central Reservo Woolston. Her two toy brothers left hor for a minute or Wo while playing The girl died before she could be extricated.

I Ohristchurch, Last night.' , At the inquest held this afternoon touching the death of a little girl named Agnes Florence Webb, who was smothered by a fall of sand in a pit at Lmwood yesterday, a verdict of accidental death was returned.

I Napier, Tuesday. An accident occurred to the Taupo coach yesterday., While descending +ie Titiokura hill beyond Pohui.the horses got out of control, and the coach cansized. The driver. Hayhow. had an arm broken and a leg severely injuria Fortunately there were no passengwn in the coach.

™ i. , . Tuesday. The body of Thomas Crawford, fifty years of age, singlo, was found on the Kiverton beach, this morning, It is supposed deceased -was seized with a fit«Ma and drowned by the rising tide. ceased was a remittance man. SUDDEN DEATHS. '• to t tt WeNfcgton, Last Night. . W. J. Hamilton, a prominent figure in Association football circles, died suddenly this morning. Walter Jennings, a labourer whd had been ill since Sunday, apparently suffering from influenza, died suddenly tonight. Deceased had not been medically attended.

Humphrey O'Rorkc, a clerk in the 'Advances to Settlers Office, was found dead in his bed at tho Railway Hotel Thorndon, to-day. Death was "duo to' natural causes.