ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 13 December 1907, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Per Press Association. Foxton, Thursday. ■ A shocking accident happened at Rosa and Soil's rope and twine works yesterday afternoon. A girl named Carroll, lifteen years old, got her arm caught in the cogs of the machine and was drawn in. The machinery lacerated the ilesh and smashed the bones above the elbow. Half an hour elapsed before she could be liberated from her position. Drs. Alcindoe and Martin amputated, the arm near the shoulder. It is not known how the accident happened. Dunedin, Thursday. Edward Burnside, a single man, was killed while scutehing at the ilaxwill on Evans' Flat, Taihapo, Thursday. A Fijian named Charles Abel, who had been taking part in the recent taugi at Moawhango pah, went to sleep on a table and fell off, dead. At the inquest the verdict returned was that death was caused by hemorrhage of the brain through diseased arteries, and was not due to the fall. Dunedin, Last Night. An inquest on the body of William McFarlane, a plumber, who was found in the harbor yesterday, was held to-day. The evidence, showed that deceased had been drinking to excess of late. The medical testimony was to the effect that death was not due to drowning, the opinion being expressed that it was caused by exhaustion and exposure. Deceased had entered the water before , death. The jury returned a verdict that deceased died from exposure and exhaustion while in a weak state of health. Palmerston North, Last Night.

At the inquest on the unknown man found hanging on Mr. Grace's property near Sanson, the body was that of a strong, able-bodied man about 28 years of age, with a black beard. No letters or money or means of identification wore found on his person, and a photograph was tnken of. the body with a view to possible future identification. The body was hanging by a lengtfi of fencing-wire from a tree. A verdict of suicide was returned.