ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 196, 17 February 1914, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

WOMAN'S SUDDEN DEATH. By Telegrapn.—Press Association. Waipawn, Yesterday. Lucy Emily Rowe, aged forty-tw#. a .married woman, died suddenly vesterday. A clot of blood on the brain was the cause of death. DEATH FROM HEMORRHAGE, Auckland, Yesterdar. Alec Johnson, a wharf laborer, was found dead in a pool of blood outside his lodgings at 5.30 this morning. Hid death was probably due to hemorrhage from the lungs. He was recently employed on one of the intercolonial steamers. Auckland. Last Night. At the inquest, concerning the death of Alexander Johnson, who was fonnd dead by a milkman at the foot of the steps of a house in Grey Lynn, the doctor stated that the cause of death was a severe hemmorhnge of the lungs. A verdict was returned accordingly. ANOTHER DROWNING CASE. ' Palmerston North, Last Night. A lad named Ernest King, formerly a telegraph messenger and latterly a letter carrier, was drowned while bathing with some other companions in the Manawatu river this afternoon. Do' ceased got out of his depth, and, despite the efforts of his companions to save him, sank. The body was recovered by the police. CRUSHED UNDER A DRAY.

Christchurch, Last Night. At 5.30 p.m., on .Saturday, tlier dead body of a young man, George Lindsay Roberts, aged 27, was found under a tip dray, on the road near Seargill. Nobody saw the accident. It is surmised that Roberts, who had been carting for his brother, was eloping the. (rate, when the horse bolted and that just as Roberts caught the reins the dray ran up the bank and overturned on him. When the body was found the reins were still in his hands, and the horse was lying on its back. MOTOR-CAR AND TRAP. FITZROY RESIDENT INJURED. At about 11 p.m. on Saturday, an accident occurred which resulted in Mrs. Thomas Mack, of Fitzroy, receiving injuries which will confine her to her house for a few days at least. Mr. and Mrs. Mack was driving towards Fitzrov, when at the corner of Gover and Devon streets their trap collided with a motor ear belonging to Mr. M. Jones, which was turning the Gover street corner on the left-hand side, and heading towards New Plymouth. Mrs. Mack was thrown out of the trap and severely bruised about the face and head. She was carried into Mr. Matthews' butcher's shop, and Dr. Blackley was inickly on the spot. He attended to her injuries, and Mrs. Mack was then able to drive home with her husband. On enquiry yesterday il was ascertained that she wiis progressing satisfactorily, although suffering rather severely from nervous shock as well as from the bruises which she sustained. Mr. Mack, who was driving the trap, states that the driver of the car was attempting to avoid a trap driven by a Maori,, and in doing so collided with him. The driver of the car states that he was coming up Gover street from the direction of the sea, and turned the corner towards New Plymouth on the right side according to the. rules of the road, when ..lie encountered Mr. Mack, whom he alleges attempted to pass him on the wrong side of the road. One shaft of the gig struck the lamp of the car, damaging it slightly, and the other came into contact with one of the. stays of the hood. Beyond this the car was not damaged, nor was the gig. Both the car and the gig were lighted, and the dri/er of the ear says that he sounded the hooter as he drove round the corner. He did not, as far as he remembers, see anything of the trap driven by a Maori. But for the fact that the shaft of tlio gig struck the hood stay first, he would probably have been injured himself.