ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 165, 12 January 1914, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

ACCIDENT WHILE HAYMAkINI,. liy Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, January Ji. Whilst haymaking, Reid Harper, ni Rusedalc Park, Pukekohe, met willi a serious accident. The two horses in the waggon bolted, and, in attempting t" stop tin: runaways, Harper was i;i!,;.-.,<.'ii down, one horse treading on him, and the wheels passing oyer his shoulder. (omu-.--.ion of the brain and an injured lung were sustained, but no bone.-'wci-i----broken. Harper is progressing favorably. RAILWAY SHUNTER KILLED. Dunedin, January 11. A railway shunter named James O'Mahoney, a single man, aged about. 30 years, was killed in' the Uunedin railway yards whilst shunting. lie van in front of the trucks to alter the points, but slipped on a rail and fell, and the trucks passed over hU lerrs, crushing both severely. Ho was removed to the hospital where lie died .it. | (i p.m., after having undergone! an opj oration in which one of his legs was amputated.

Sl-DDKN DKATIt AT A THEATRIC. Dunedin, January 11. About half-past eight last night, Robert August Jager, a resident of South Dunedin, aged 3.1 years, was sitting in the top gallery of'the Princess Theatre watching the pictures, when he v/as suddenly overcome and fell face downwards. A doctor was called in, but found that life had departed. HOY DROWXED IX. SURF. Wanganui, Last Night. ■ An eleven-yenr-oirt boy named '.Skcen was drowned at Castlc'elilV on Saturday. "While bathing in the suri he was caught in the under-tow. A companion made a gallar.t attempt at rescue. A STRAVGK CASK. Wellington, January 11. The inquest concerning the death of n woman who collapsed in the street near Parliament Buildings on Wednesday, and expired in a few minutes, disclosed an unusual state of .affairs, deceased not being definitely identified. She had been staying with friends at Tawa Plat, and medical evidence showed that the woman, who was near confinement, died from heart trouble. Henry James Forbes, a farmer of Woodlands, Southland, said deceased had been housekeeper for his father some years ago. and went under tlic name of Elizabeth Jeffrey. Since then -she had been in the Chatham Islands, and witness had not seen her for 12 months. She had said she was married, and that her name was Reynolds. Witness believed she had a brother, but did not knowwhere. As there was still uncertainty as to deceased's identity, the coroner returned a verdict that' she died from heart failure.

SCHOOL TEACHER SCICTDES. Chvistchureh, Last Night. A young woman named Marv Scott, 24 years of age, a =ehool teacher lit Charlton, Ranks Peninsula, was admittd to the Alexandra Private Hospital, Ferry Road, on January (i, suffering from blood poisoning. She was operated on and progressed satisfactorily. Early last night, however, she was found on the ground at the back of the hospital, having jumped out of a window. Her skull was fractured and death must have been almost instantaneous. A post mortem showed that deceased w, ; suffering from mcnln-Wti,