ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 68, 7 August 1912, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A SUDDEN DEATH. By Telegraph—Press Association. Carterton, Wednesday. A sudden death occurred at Carterton last night, when Joseph Oates, a very old resident, passed away. He was yesterday doing his business as usual and was in high spirits, and had not been in. ill-health. A FATAL FALL. Hamilton, Last Night. At the inquest on the death of Neil Kennedy, a sailor who tell (i.l feet from a water-tower in course of erection at Plankton Junction, where he was employed yostiirday, a verdict of accidental death was returned, no blame being attachable to anyone. The evidence showed that the scaffolding was safe to work on. and that Kennedy must have slipped. KILLED TN A TUNNEL. Grevmouth, Last Night. Meagre details to hand intimate that a man mimed Arthur William Marton, 'hailing from Australia, was killed at the Otira tunnel this afternoon at 4 o'clock, lie wa- caught in the tunnel by an engine arid a rake of trucks and crushed to death. An inquest will be held tomorrow.

A FATAL, .MISTAKE. I Wellington, Wednesday, j At the inquest into the death of Mary Biesnan. a single woman, the medical j evidence disclosed that the cause of poisoning was tabloids being taken in mistake For sweets. A verdict to that effect was returned. FALL FROM A HORSE. Welling!on. Wednesday. Stewart Leckie, a -butcher, aged "20, married, who fell from his horse yesterday and sustained a fracture of the base of his skull, died in hospital early this morning. A RAILWAY ACCIDENT. Daivnevirkc. Wednesday, i The danger of the tablet apparatus "J was emphasised yesterday. Adjutant / Green, of the Salvation Army, was re- j turning from Masterton by the express I train, and was sitting in a second class, carriage next to the engine with his i head projecting a few inches through | the window, and when passing the tahlet j mechanism at Pahiatua as the train ' was entering the station, the projecting arm. which picks up the tablet, struck him mi the face under the right eye., inflicting a severe wound, which necessitated several stitches being put in on his arrival at Woodville, It was lucky the adjutant did . not have his eye gouged out. KILLED BY A WAGGON. Carterton, Wednesday. A man named George King, a driver) for a carrying business, fell from his I seat on a waggon on the Martinborough road yesterday, and the wheel, passing; over his head, killed him instantly. I