ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 107, 13 August 1910, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

DEATH OF ALEXANDER ALLEN. By Telegraph.—Press Association. - ' Wellington, Friday. The inquest took place to-aay on Alexander Allen. Deceased, who had an Imperial Army pension and also an old age pension, came from New Plymouth la few days ago, and evidence allowed 1 that he had been drinking heavily since ' arriving here. The verdict was that death was due to hemorrhage from a cyst on 'the brain. The medical evidence was . that the cyst might have formed M a result of a blow. | Allen was one of the two old men who figured prominently in a fracas which ! took place a fortnight ago in the Old ! People's Home here. He served in the 131st Foot and 12th Lancers, attaining the rank of sergeant-major, and held medals for the Souht African campaign of 1851 (Kaffir War), the Turkish and British medals for the Crimea, and the long service and good conduct medal. He was one of the few soldiers who were saved from the wreck of the troopship ', Birkenhead. Allen was an Orangeman of the most pronounced type, and it was the language used by him, while under jthe influence of lipuor, which led to the 'disturbance at the Home and Ms dis--1 missal from that institution. [ THE LYTTELTON FATALITY. [ Christchurch, Friday. i Evidence at the inquest «m *"0 man [! Chambers, run over aud killed by a r |tramcar at Lyttelton suggested that *•» .i ceased was slightly under the influence , of liquor. He fell from a trailer on a , straight piece of road, the second trailer .' passing over him. The coroner returned a verdict that death was accidental, . and exonerated the tramway officials. ' Chambers is a single man about 32 years \ of age. He came here from Queensland •■ a couple of years ago. I DEATH BY LAUDANUM. Auckland, Last Night. ' Constable Cox, of Rawene, telegraphed \ to Inspector Cullen to-day that Walter- [ Burry, a settler at Waiotematama, took . an overdose of laudanum on Wednesday ( night by accident, it is supposed, and t died this morning. '; MAN LOSES A FOOT. i ; Dunedin, Last Night. I A man named Samuel Sneddon, aged i 62 years, engaged as a labourer on the i Mosgiel Railway duplication works, was ; the victim of a severe accident this i morning. He was working with a gang I of men on the embankment at Green Island emptying trucks of clay. As the loaded trucks were running, Sneddon attempted to board one by stepping on to the iron bar which runs along the bot- ' torn of the truck. His foot slipped and ' a wheel went over it badly crushing it. ' The foot was amputated at the hospi- ' tal. Sneddon lives at St Kilda. J FALL THROUGH A LIGHT WELL. ! Wellington, Last Night. ' Miss Nellie Roache, a young woman, living in the Arcadia Hotel, fell through the light well in the hotel this morning, a distance of 40 feet. She was seriously injured about the head and shoulders, and it is feared there are also internal injuries. She was removed to the hospital. WOMAN'S SUDDEN END.

Wellington, Bast Night. Mrs. Davies died suddenly this morning JTed daughter was ill from pneumonia and neighbours had been aßsisting_U> nurse her. One of the neighbours, wjw had been in attendance oil deceaseds daughter, left for her home at « ».», ' and the nursing was then taken up by Mrs. Twohill. The latter had to leave the house for a short time to get assistance for Mrs. Davies, who was com- % tplaining of internal pains, and when she returned she found Mrs. Davies lying - dead alongside her sick daughter.