ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2057, 21 May 1909, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

! death at a football match. [Pkk Press Association.] OAAIARU, May 20. i A young man named l’hos. Martin, a ! tailor, died while being conveyed from the football field to-day. tie had {urnplained of feeling unwell for several da vs. and. while playing in a football match to-day, it is supposed lie atruek one of the goal posts w”.ii bis head. He was removed from the ground; hut died shortly afterwards. The doctor who attended him says that (teatil was due to hemorrhage oi the brain. A CHRISTCHURCH FATALITY. CHRISTCHURCH, AL.y 20. James Smart ,of Richmond, who was run over by an aerated water cart on \nril 17th, and sustained seven e injuries, died at the Papanui Sant; riuni to-dav. In his statement to dm ponce Smart said lie had been run over by a motor ear, but subsequent _ ni Post nations showed that he was mistaken. BEAT LI UN DEiTcH LO IP > FORM. WELLINGTON, May 20. Miss Louisa Chant, aged ML) years, a- ’ patient in the hospital, died this me niu<r after chloroform lmd .wen, admin 5 stored to her fertile purpose m ei ablin<>- an operation to be pertoimcd. Dm llardwioko Smith (medma, rtineiintendent of the hospital), and D-m Faulke and Foster were presen., and did everything in their power to. rest me animation. Dm McArthur tdisuic. cm - oner) held an inquest. "'1 ' that the deceased .had been m 1 < health for some tune, suffevu g -io appendicitis. She was opeiaa Vyiiil Stli, and stood anacrtlimics It was then found that 4 lie oxwcem<ot tumors rendered another J U l4 ; imperative. Tins took place n - special precautions being tai. n owing to the patient’s weak state. Three tumors were removed. •• - tor the operation, from rf>«r vo«k»08, the patient’s heart ceased to mam verdict rvas returned of dontl lum heart failure, accelerated b> Ju. ac ministration of auaoS hot.es , or the purposes of an operation, e.mclr absolutely necessary. DEATH AFTER AN OPERATION. DUNEDIN, May 20. An adjourned inquest touching Die . ln ,r| V. Tiiicv Kingston, domestic .ei 1 t hie occurred at the hospital on ", E l2. was continued before the Coroner (Mm ML 1 Rolrtroavo evidence to the effect that Teen"performed, Imt declined to vl > U b , c 11 1 \ftpr further evidence had men f'iven ' A' S'S od to enable the police to make mt.i.i inquiries. -