ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 358, 8 April 1910, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

ENGINEER INJURED.

By Telegraph.—Press A»aueial.iuu. Wallinjfton, Last Night

At Messrs. Cable and Co.'s foundry at Kaiwarra to-day an engineer named Rov Robertson, aged twenty-one, went up 'a ladder to place the bell on a pulley, ilis right hand and arm became entangled in the belt, and his arm was broken and the thumb torn oil'. His system also sustained a great shock.

A SUDDEN DEATH

Dunedin, April 7,

Mrs Capamagian, an elderly widow, was found dead on a footpath last night. Presumaably death was caused by heart failure.

OPUNAKE POISONING FATALITY

A sad poisoning case occurred on the Tepoka Road, Rahotu, by which a child .named Alfred Stewart Clark, a grandson of Mrs. Dew, met his death. Some time ago an employee of Mrs. Dew had occasion to use some sulphuric acid, and when finished with it placed the bottle on a shelf in thetrapshed, well out of the reach of children. However, during the heavy gale on Wednesday last the .shed was blown over and thc'bottle fell to the ground. On Friday last the deceased and two 'brothers, aged three years and four and a-half years, u«ie .playing in the shed, when the little fellow (who was only a year and eight •months old) picked up the bottle and drank a portion of the contents. A few •minutes afterwards he was seen by Mrs. Dew, and she at once summoned Dr. Barron, who -promptly attended the sufferer, and also visited him agam uii Saturday, hut in spite of medical attention and all that could be done, the little fellow gradually sank and died that afternoon. Much sympathy is felt for the parents and Mrs. Drew in their sad nereavement.—Times.