ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 161, 25 November 1912, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

BODY ON INFANT FOUND.

By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Saturday. A brief bag was found at the steps of the ferry tee this morning. It contained the dead body of a female child fully developed, with a tape tied lightly round its neck. The body was wrapped m a portion of a woman's clothing. The bag was weighted with a flat iron, and was probably left on the steps by the receding tide. Medical examination indicates that the child never breathed. There is no clue as to the mother's identity.

INQUEST ON FATHER VENNING.

Wellington, Last Night. At the inquest on the body of the late Father Venning, who met with a fatal accident on Thursday nijrht, evidence was given that deceased was found at the entrance to Guildford ten-ace, close to the Basilica, with one foot entangled in his motor cycle. He had evidently tried to negotiate the corner and run into a post. His skull wa.s fractured and the brain injured, and he was also suffering from shock. A verdict of accidental death was returned. FATAL FALL FROM A DISC. Invercargill, Last Night. A farmer named William Ballantyne Prinder, aged 32, of Wairio, was accidentally killed on Saturday evening. He was discing a ploughed field, and in descending into a hollow was apparently thrown from his seat in front of the disc, which came to a stop on his shoulders. The accident was not witnessed by anyone, and deceased was probably two hours under the heavy machine before being discovered. Life was then extinct. A DROWNING FATALITY.

Invercargill, Last Night. A drowning accident happened at Otautau on Saturday, by which John Carrick, one of the best known farmers in Southland, met his death. It appears that along with an employee, was hand-straining barbed wire on the edge of a lagoon, when the wire, broke and he was precipitated into about nine feet of water. The employee made strenuous endeavors to rescue the drowning man. but without avail. He called for assistance, and Mrs. Carrick, Mr. M. O'Brien and others came on the scene, but it was fully fifteen minutes after the accident before the body was recovered. A medical man was on the scene promptly, and restorative measures were applied without avail. FATAL FALL FROM A PERAMBULATOR. Wanganui, Last Night. A nine months old infant named Daphne Death fell out of a perambulator at Castlecliff on Saturday, and was strangled. A BUSH-FELLING FATALITY. Wanganui, Last Night. While felling bush on his family's property at Aim Ahu on Saturday, James John Brownlie, aged twenty years, was struck by a tree, and died when being carried to Kai Iwi. THE MOTOR-CAR FATALITY. Ghristchurch, Last Night. • An inquest on the body of Mr. James Henderson, of Dunsandel, who died at the Christchurch Hospital yesterday as the result of injuries sustained in a motor-car accident at Birdling's Flat on Tuesday night, was held to-day. Hugh Cleaver Jamieson, a builder, said that deceased left in his car for his home at Dunsandel about half an hour before witness. When they arrived at the cutting leading to Birdling's Flat they found that the car which had been driven by> deceased had been capsized and had pinned the deceased underneath. The deceased complained of pains in his chest. So far as witness could see, it was a pure accident, owing to the small single on the road, and was probably due to an error of judgment. Deceased was an experienced driver. The coroner returned a verdict that deceased died from injuries accidentally received in the capsizing of his motor-car on the Little River road.