ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 40, 8 July 1914, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

FATAL FALL FROM A WINDOW. By Telegraph—Press Association. Gisborne. Yesterday. Robert M'Whirtcr, who was injured by falling' out of an upstairs bedrooo; window in Alie County Hotel, has died in hospital.

A BODY RECOVERED.

Gisborne, Yesterday.

'riii! boily of William Cochrane, who was drowned in t'lio Motu River a, fortnight ago, luis been discovered neat Where the man's cries were beard on the night of the fatality.

SUDDEN DEATH. Foxton, Last Night. A sudden death occurred here shortly before livo o'clock this evening. .Mrs. Henderson, .relict of the 'ate "Mill. Henderson, a well-known Marton settler, who was on a visit to her daughter, .Mrs. A. Hawke, had .just returned from paying an afternoon call. She complained of feeling unwell, and passed away in a few minutes. Death was due. to heart failure. Deceased leaves a grown-up family of two sons and four daughters.

A FATAL-WEAK LINK.

Auckland, djast Night. There was a somewhat lengthy inquest to-day concerning the death o. Thus'. Rutland tile workman who fell over 30 feet on Monday while engaged oil a building in Queen street, and dUd almost immediately. The deceased was on a heavy girder which wits being; lifted into position by steam-power. A link in the heavy, chain suddenly broke, and tile falling block from the tackle struck the deceased on the head and a:: fell on to the. logs below, receiving fatal injuries. Kxpvi evidence was to the effect that the metal in the steel chain was rendered brittle by the frost o{ the previous night, tmd this probably caused it to break. The coroner, after full inquiry, found, (hat death was. accidental, no blame being attachable to inivotie. .

A 1 !if?A Iv BSM AN/S ,])E(ATH.

flreymouth. Last Night. Al tlie adjourned* inquesi into the oirnnnttanws attending the death o! IVter Kwart. wlio was killed by a tramway accident at the Paroa sawmill oil Tuesday la«t. the verdict, was that deceased met 11is death by being thrown from a runaway truck, on which >e was acting .is brakesman.